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From: franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Mach-64 problems in Textmode!!!
Date: 12 Jan 96 16:23:10 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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Geert Bosch <geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> writes:

>Furthermore, text-mode operation shouldn't be a problem in any case. I
>think there might be some auto-probes for other equipment on a port
>address that the Mach card uses, that cause the card to misbehave. Or there

We've got an Intel Atlantis board with a built-in Mach64 video card.
Same problem.  Have to disable the probes for the serial ports otherwise
the Mach64 is put in an inoperable state.

-Frank
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