From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 17:23:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25128 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:23:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU (Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.140.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25077 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by Dorm-35959.RH.UH.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA10488; Wed, 6 May 1998 19:22:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 19:22:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: jeremy kam cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linear addressing problem. In-Reply-To: <3550F032.C32C796D@shaw.wave.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > hard reboots. I have the cirrus logic 5428 video card with 1 MB video > memory but I've tried setting it up using generic VGA, and got the same > error message. It's on an ISA bus, and the file says that it's not > possible to get linear addressing to work on an ISA bus, but I have been > successful in doing it a few months ago and now I don't remember how and > can't seem to duplicate it. Is there a solution to this problem, or > perhaps a driver that'll allow me to obtain 800x600 in 16 bpp mode? > Hope you can help. It's not possible (at least according to XF86) to use linear addressing on ISA with >=16 megs of RAM.I did this once and wound up losing /etc and most of /usr/local/bin .... very nasty. If you in fact do discover a way around this I'm sure everyone using a Cirrus Logic chip would love to know what you did. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jonathan Fosburgh |We shall not cease from exploration jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, |And the end of all our exploring wotan@scientist.com |Will be to arrive where we started from |And know the place for the first time. www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 | Undergraduate Geophysics |T.S. Eliot, University of Houston |The Four Quartets ******************************************************************************* I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged ******************************************************************************* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBNVD+sfx1aCmcyaTdAQHS4gIAluA0SVkdMYqQuFi+9n4204qDNr5hwwiU XNDkc7opCSy/b2cH9YyModzWEn2payX4mnGBILaMIJESvpBjAqSMyQ== =wleg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message