Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:34:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Christopher R. Bowman" <crb@ChrisBowman.com> Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: multi-user: multiple consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199810231834.LAA00518@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Oct 1998 05:51:34 EDT." <199810231102.GAA10474@quark.ChrisBowman.com>
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> >Since Jason claims to have tested this and failed, while I know that you > >have at least one well-behaved card, it seems to be a bit of a mixed > >bag. I wonder if the current crop of ATI cards still work? I've got a > >pair of Rage 3DII's here I could try it with. ... > I've got a Toshiba Equium 6200M (Intel Pr440fx based) with the ATI Rage 3D II+ > based card that it came with, and a Fire 1000 GL Pro (Permedia 2 based) card. > The machine works fine under NT (Not using both, just both in the machine) and > under FreeBSD which also is not using the second card. As long as the cards > are in the right slots the ATI card is used as the boot display which is ok > since I don't have a send monitor yet. Ok, so it looks like at least the Rage and Permedia BIOSsen aren't completely pathalogical. Thanks for the datapoint. > I assume that the Permedia 2 card will work fine but I have not as yet been > able to test it. I have a set of Permedia 2 data books, and I want to write a > driver to talk to it but I can't seem to get it to probe correctly. My pci > driver probe gets called for the on board USB connector but never gets called > for any other pci devices, so I haven't been able to fiddle with it. That may be because other drivers are soaking up the probe; does the Permedia card show up in a verbose probe at all? If so, does anyone claim it? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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