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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:28:13 +0000 ()
From:      Gary Roberts <gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au>
To:        dillards@mpsi.net (Tom Dillard)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ldillard@spd.dsccc.com, dillards@mpsi.net
Subject:   Re: AGP Problem?
Message-ID:  <199801292228.WAA20513@ajax.wcs.uq.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <34D0181B.4C30641@mpsi.net> from Tom Dillard at "Jan 28, 98 09:48:11 pm"

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Tom Dillard writes:

> I have a new DELL XPS 266, 64Mb ECC SDRAM;
mine is a clone with ASUS P2L97A MB, PII 266, 64Mb SDRAM (440LX AGP chipset)

>                video: 8Mb Matrox Millennium II AGP;
AGP chipset is ATI 3D RAGE on MB with 4Mb of 64bit SGRAM

>                drive: Ultra ATA
6.4Gb Ultra DMA Bus Master EIDE

>                CD:    14/32X eide  (NEC)
clone 24X EIDE

>                sound: creative labs awe64 isa
creative labs soundblaster 16 PNP

>                storage: iomega zip for WinNT
nil

Only other card is 3C509B ISA PNP.

> I'm trying to boot 2.2.5 from CD, first time install.
I've just done a full install via NFS of 2.2.5 with nil problems
(after disabling PNP on the NIC).

> Is 2.2.5 able to deal with AGP?  After the configure screen (where you
No problems at all with video.  I did have a problem with NFS until I
disabled PNP on the NIC.

Now to get X going.  I notice there is an ATI 3D RAGE entry for the
Mach64 server but I'm not sure if this is appropriate for the AGP chipset.

I hope you get your problems sorted out.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary Roberts



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