Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:03:08 +0100 (GMT+0100) From: "Alain FAUCONNET" <af@biomath.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOYO SY-30F2 blues Message-ID: <199607181303.AA02553@iaka.biomath.jussieu.fr>
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> > Hoi Hardware,
> >
> > I own a SOYO SY-30F2 mainboard (4xpci, 2xvesa, all 486's) with a
> > NCR 53C810 on the PCI bus. Until a week ago that was the only device
> > on the PCI bus.
> >
> > A week ago I added a 'Diamond Stealth 64 video 2001' to my system.
> > Pretty cool video card, but not for me. X crashes my system (as in
> > immediate reboot). Needless to say Descent^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMS-DOS runs
> > fine :( I have no MS Windows to try it with.
> >
[......]
>
> If anything I would syspect the Diamond Stealth 64 video 2001, I have
> heard nothing but nightmares from my freinds down the street who build
> regular PC for DOS/Windows/WIN95 when they try to use these things on
> just about anyones motherboard.
>
> >
> > boot -v reveals that both the SCSI and the VGA card use int# a. and
> > occupy the same memory address. This is regardless of the settings I
> > do in the bios (Award modular bios).
>
> It sounds like maybe the bios on the VGA card or the motherboard bios
> are not doing the right thing with respect to memory space assignment.
>
I'm not sure about the 2xxx series, but the 3xxx Diamond Stealth 64
are nice and fast controllers for FBSD/XFree86... once you figured out
how to configure them.
Make sure you are using the latest XFree86 3.1.2 beta release (I think
it's 3.1.2e). Also try playing with options in the /etc/XF86Config
file. I have had to explicitely specify the VRAM base address in mine
as follows (remember my card is a 3400):
Section "Device"
Identifier "Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM"
VendorName "Diamond"
BoardName "Stealth 64 Video VRAM"
MemBase 0x8000000
#Option "slow_vram"
Option "sw_cursor"
Option "Diamond"
# Use Option "nolinear" if the server doesn't start up correctly
# (this avoids the linear framebuffer probe). If that fails try
# option "nomemaccess".
#
# Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.S3, and the XF86_S3 man page.
EndSection
Note that the address will probably vary for your configuration.
Actually I picked up mine from what the demo Xaccel commercial server
printed at startup. You might want to try it, I think it's available
on www.xinside.com.
Option "slow_vram" (commented out above) is said to avoid some cases
of image corruption and/or crashes too.
Good luck,
_Alain_
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I've RTFMed. It says: "Refer to your system administrator"
But... I *am* the system administrator :-]
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