From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 11:00:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05615 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:00:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05602 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:00:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA20919 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:01:50 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA07093 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:11:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:11:33 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199611271911.UAA07093@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: support of RealTek 8029 (and an X issue) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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