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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PCI: unable to boot/install Date: 5 Jan 1995 15:01:30 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3eh1ka$ldm@fw.novatel.ca> References: <ROOT.95Jan1191135@gardano.tiac.net> <3e94s4$m0s@darum.uni-mannheim.de> <3e9dq3INN16ba@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Stefan Esser (se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE) wrote: : The pci code in NetBSD is based on an early : version of that in FreeBSD, and there is no : reason a PCI VGA board shouldn't work !!! Just to clarify, I'm running NetBSD 1.0 on some machines and 1.0-current on others each with PCI VGA controllers (and PCI SCSI) and am having no problems whatsoever... In fact, I'm running XF86 3.1 at 1536x1102 all viewable and it screams (ATI Mach32)... (Also, I'm not sure but I think NetBSD's PCI code was totally redone by Charles but your mileage may vary). (I don't represent NetBSD in any way) -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]