Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:11:33 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: support of RealTek 8029 (and an X issue) Message-ID: <199611271911.UAA07093@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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I just had a conversation with someone who switched to Linux -
for device support reasons. For one, he has a RealTek 8029 and
couldn't find support for it under FreeBSD. But what baffled me was
that Linux gave him the following in /proc/pci (?):
Linux says... (in /proc/pci) <--?
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0)
Medium Devsel. IRQ 11
I/O at 0x7f40
While FreeBSD said during boot:
pci0:10 device=8029 class=ethernet (network) IRQ=11
[no driver assignment]
The other point that formed his mind was that he couldn't get his
Trident card running under FreeBSD's XFree86 setup.
Under Linux it worked magically:
"The video card you have, Trident 9440GUI, has a special technique of
displaying high graphics WITHOUT using clocks. Would you like X to
use this method?"
While under FreeBSD he only had one clock and couldn't get the card
configured.
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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