From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 14:58:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B7A37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:58:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com (svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9FC43F3F for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com) Received: from wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Not Verified[203.39.118.3]) by svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com with MailMarshal (v5,0,3,78) id ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:59:08 +1100 Received: from mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com (unknown [10.0.17.42]) by wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2123F0E; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:58:22 +1100 (EST) From: Murray Taylor Organization: Bytecraft Systems To: Erik Trulsson Subject: Re: PCI interpretation question AND Superprobe question Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:58:15 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200302121451.00506.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <20030213011238.A30201@spyder.bytecraft.au.com> <20030212143505.GA76024@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030212143505.GA76024@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302130958.15898.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:35 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 01:12:38AM +1100, System & wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:18:53PM -0500, northern snowfall wrote: > > > >pci bus 0x0001 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x1039 device 0x6326 > > > > SiS 6326 > > > > > > The SiS 6326 has 8MB or 4MB on-board RAM. You should be able to let X > > > autodetect the video size by selecting 8MB in X86Config. If there is > > > less X will > > > figure it out with a probe. > > > > > > FYI, the BASE[0-2] values are either memory mapped I/O or classic port > > > I/O for transferring data to/from the PCI. It is not RAM. > > > Don > > > > Thanks for the assist > > > > BTW .. X didnt get it right when I set 8192 in the X86Config file > > All I got was a _very_ streaky, torn image ... Ctrl-Alt-BkSp > > Set it to 4096 and all is great. > > I take it you did not read the XFree86 documentation then. > If you did you would have found the following paragraph > > VideoRAM size > The SiS chips can only directly address 4096K bytes of video RAM. > Some video cards using these chips are shipped with additional > video RAM. The videoRAM must be explicitly limited to 4096 for > those cards. Attempting to use the additional RAM leads to a > variety of scrambled screen artifacts. > > (To find that text go to http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.1/ and click on > "Information for SiS users".) Ahah... also in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS (machine was shutdown over weekend therefore nothing useful in locate db -- now updated) tks ************************************************************************ This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ************************************************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message