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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!not-for-mail From: geordan@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please advise on hardware! Endeavor/Atlantis/Buslogic - do they work for you? Date: 17 Apr 1996 16:37:53 -0700 Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4l3vch$105@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> References: <4knqe8$2sp@nntp1.best.com> <4l15lb$16g@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> <4l3n43$ojs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <4l3n43$ojs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote: >I may be getting several GW2000 machines here with a built-in Mach64 >video card -- do you know if they will suffer from the same problem? I >believe that the MB is Triton-based, but I don't know what type it is. > I don't know; it could depend on the version of the card, but then again it might happen to all the Mach64's. >Could a simpler solution be to boot with the "-c" option and turn off >sio3 and sio4? Actually you have to disable all the sio devices, because the sio driver probes all ports, disabled or not. If you want to reenable them you'll have to remove the reference to 0x2e8 (I think) in sio.c and rebuild the kernel. There is more information in the XFree86 FAQ, I believe. Check out www.xfree86.org. -Geordan -- + Geordan Rosario -------------- + | geordan@csua.berkeley.edu | The opinions expressed here are mine and may | geordan@ocf.berkeley.edu | be purchased for $10 each. + - geordan@po.eecs.berkeley.edu +