From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 29 16:57:15 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA08680 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:57:15 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA08589 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:54:29 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA16865; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:52:22 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA11938; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:52:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA17117; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:43:03 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511300043.BAA17117@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problem with sio probe and Mach64 PCI video card To: dawes@Physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:43:02 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511290510.QAA03876@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Nov 29, 95 04:10:08 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 676 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Dawes wrote: > > extents. A serial port using the usual COM4 address simply can't > coexist with these type of cards (S3, ATI, etc). Funny that either COM4 as 8514 are IBM kids. :-) S3 can coexist with traditional COM4, since it's possible to remap their IO registers (they only default to the 8514-compatible mode). XFree86 didn't implement this however (and i doubt somebody is bothered enough to do it -- i would rather scratch a pad on my serial card and reconnect the port to 0x268 or 0x368 :-). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)