Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:58:15 +1100 From: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI interpretation question AND Superprobe question Message-ID: <200302130958.15898.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20030212143505.GA76024@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <200302121451.00506.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <20030213011238.A30201@spyder.bytecraft.au.com> <20030212143505.GA76024@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:35 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:12:38AM +1100, System & wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:18:53PM -0500, northern snowfall wrote: > > > >pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x6326 > > > > SiS 6326 > > > > > > The SiS 6326 has 8MB or 4MB on-board RAM. You should be able to let X > > > autodetect the video size by selecting 8MB in X86Config. If there is > > > less X will > > > figure it out with a probe. > > > > > > FYI, the BASE[0-2] values are either memory mapped I/O or classic port > > > I/O for transferring data to/from the PCI. It is not RAM. > > > Don > > > > Thanks for the assist > > > > BTW .. X didnt get it right when I set 8192 in the X86Config file > > All I got was a _very_ streaky, torn image ... Ctrl-Alt-BkSp > > Set it to 4096 and all is great. > > I take it you did not read the XFree86 documentation then. > If you did you would have found the following paragraph > > VideoRAM size > The SiS chips can only directly address 4096K bytes of video RAM. > Some video cards using these chips are shipped with additional > video RAM. The videoRAM must be explicitly limited to 4096 for > those cards. Attempting to use the additional RAM leads to a > variety of scrambled screen artifacts. > > (To find that text go to http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/ and click on > "Information for SiS users".) Ahah... also in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS (machine was shutdown over weekend therefore nothing useful in locate db -- now updated) tks ************************************************************************ This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ************************************************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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