Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:52:20 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Cc: Darrell Taylor <dtaylor@eyemagic.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 cards Message-ID: <199606301752.KAA00329@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:34:13 EDT." <Pine.SOL.3.91.960630131248.9598C-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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>On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Darrell Taylor wrote: > >> Though the compatibility list for FreeBSD includes ATI Mach64 cards, the FAQ >> says that to make these cards work, a whole stack of workarounds and >> rebuilds will be necessary. (Text below). Does this state of affairs still >> exist? Has the bug been squashed? Having barely survived lengthy attempts > >I know the newer stuff from -current has probing of com port 3 >disabled... I imagine that 2.1.5 will also have probing of that port >disabled by default. Really, the only bug in 2.1-RELEASE is that com Actually, 2.1.5 shouldn't have this problem: (sio.c) ---------------------------- revision 1.99.4.2 date: 1996/01/29 08:17:15; author: bde; state: Exp; lines: +18 -35 Brought in some critical changes from main branch: part of rev.1.115: Fix the tests for being a console by reverting to the ones that were used before the the RB_SERIAL changes... all of rev.1.123: Removed builtin list of port addresses. The address for sio3 conflicted with S3 graphics cards... --- Note the last part about rev 1.123. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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