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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mach64 Xserver problem. Date: 14 Feb 1996 08:15:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4fs5mp$hcg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <MAGNER.96Feb12110112@hstud1.cs.uit.no> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 magner@hstud1.cs.uit.no (Magne Rasmussen) writes: > I have an ATI Mach64 Xpression PCI w/2Mb DRAM. When I try to run the > Mach64 XServer on a FreeBSD 2.1.0R system, strange things happen: I'm not aware about Mach's terminology, but some of the newer Mach64's require a newer Xserver (still beta though) than XFree86 3.1.2. They also require a fix (or hack) to prevent the kernel from stomping over register 0x2e8 during sio probing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)