Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 11:47:08 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PCI chipset setup? Message-ID: <199712061947.LAA06706@rah.star-gate.com>
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I am not sure whats going on here. I don't see how having a a bt848 card installed would interfere with a matrox meteor;specially, if the cards work on Win95. The only thing that I can think of is that the VXPro+ chipset requires further initialization than what is being done on FreeBSD. Amancio roger@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk said: > Hi, I'm having both a Matrox Meteor and a Bt848 (VideoLogic > CaptivatorPCI) frame grabber. > Under Windoze95, both work fine together in the same PC. They did not > interfere with each other and I could even grab from both grabbers > simultaneously. > I'm now installed FreeBSD 2.2.5-release. However, I am getting some > problems. > First, I built a kernel with device meteor0 and did the MAKEDEV > meteor0 I got the matrox meteor working fine. I used the test program / > usr/share/examples/meteor/rgb16.c, grabbing at 320x200 and then at > 640x400, single frame mode. > Then I added the Brooktree 848 support with device bktr 0 and MAKEDEV > bktr0 > I tried the Matrox grab software again to check that the presence of > the Brooktree was not interfering with it. > The Matrox still grabs at 320x200 but at 640x400 I get one of the > following... a) complete hang b) a core dump (from the matrox grab > program) c) a image with video for the top 1/3rd and black for the > rest of the frame. d) as for c) followed by bus error when trying to > save a file I was editing with vi. > I've not installed your latest drivers yet. The machine is a K6-200 > with 32 Megs of RAM. VXPro+ chipset (one of the PCCHIPS boards). The > bus is clocked at 83, so the CPU runs at 208 MHz. > Any ideas? Roger Hardiman roger@cs.strath.ac.uk or > roger@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk University of Strathclyde,Dept of > Computer Science,Glasgow,Scotland
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