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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: [386BSD]: DEPCA support in future? References: <1992Aug28.153333.3797@desire.wright.edu> Date: 31 Aug 92 08:45:03 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715250703@du9ds3> Lines: 26 In <1992Aug28.153333.3797@desire.wright.edu> ejones@desire.wright.edu writes: >Are there any plans to include a DEC DEPCA ethernet card in the supported >ethernet contollers? I have a 16 bit DEC card that I really like, but >in order to use 386BSD I need to swap it with a 3com503 board. Also, will >it be possible in the future to run X386 on a VGA screen instead of SVGA? >Thanks for the help. > Ed Jones > Wright State University > ejones@desire.wright.edu If my memory serves me right, the DEPCA uses an INTEL 82586 LANCE. There was a recent posting for an "ie_driver" based on this chip. It should work, or it should be not too difficult to modify it. X386 will run with a standard VGA card, in 640x480 resolution with an entry in Xconfig for the 25 or 28 MHz clocks which are always present. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"