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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2000 20:46:21 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        wc.bulte@chello.nl, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does anyone know how to define RAMDAC and clock chip of Mach64 for FreeBSD4.0/Alpha?
Message-ID:  <20000621204621.D238@freebie.wbnet>
In-Reply-To: <14671.26090.747395.116295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:47:32AM -0400
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:47:32AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > 
>  > XF86 works just like as on the Intel. Notable exception is a core dumping
>  > SuperProbe.
> 
> Not to mention that buggy Xservers will panic machines when they
> access invalid i/o space addresses on non-ev6 platforms.

You tell me ... ;-)

> Also, some video cards will not work as console devices because the
> SRM console's x86 emulator is incapable of running their BIOSes.

Right, but sofar I have not had *that* problem. Even an ancient ET4000 ISA
worked for me.

> I've found that Permedia & Matrox cards work well..

A $20 S3 PCI also worked for me.

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 	http://www.freebsd.org  "Do, or do not. There is no try"
wilko@freebsd.org	http://www.nlfug.nl	Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back


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