Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:42:18 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video Problem Message-ID: <199510100312.MAA10793@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <01HW8FEMILP4004W4V@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Oct 9, 95 10:54:52 am
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Annelise Anderson stands accused of saying: > > I'm having trouble with a messy screen in X, and the video card > tech people suggest excluding A000-C7FF as they can be excluded > in the DOS/Windows memory management line in the config.sys file. You should ring the video card people back and tell them that they shouldn't try to be useful when it comes to unix systems 8) > The installation is 2.0.5, generic kernel. Does this already > avoid writing to the A000-C7FF area, or is there something I could > add that would do this? The FreeBSD kernel avoids doing anything in that area for exactly that reason. I understand from your other message that you're using an ET4000w32p-based card. Current X servers have endless grief with this chipset - I can only suspect that either the chips are a pain to program, or that useful information on them is hard to come by. In either case, the w32p is a not a good choice for X; I'd recommend an S3 based card myself. > Annelise -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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