From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 24 11:36:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D8037B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13o8w9-0005jT-00; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:36:37 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9OIdRd01799; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:39:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:39:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Ralph Schreyer Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad Subject: Re: Graphics card on 433au Message-ID: <20001024203926.D1664@freebie.demon.nl> References: <14837.36344.340675.384466@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:43:10PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:43:10PM +0200, Ralph Schreyer wrote: > first thank you for your hints. The brute force override > > >>> set pci_device_override -1 > > really not works for SRM version V6.6-29. We updated to version V7.2-1 and > now the SRM console accepts the Matrox Millenium after having executed the > command above. Nevertheless, it's more clean to follow your suggestion and Right.. I'll update HARDWARE.TXT to document this. > >>> set pci_device_override > > on the SRM console. We obtained from the output of > > pciconf -l > > on a running machine with the same graphics card giving something like > > ... card=0x ... > > We did not check if this works for V6.6-29, but for V7.2-1 the > graphics card is accepted. > As a remark, in the HARDWARE.TXT there seems to be a misprint concerning > this problem, because there and are interchanged. Hmm. I'll check this out. I always do the '-1' trick on my MX5 ;) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message