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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:39:27 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Ralph Schreyer <schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jan Conrad <conrad@th.physik.uni-bonn.de>
Subject:   Re: Graphics card on 433au
Message-ID:  <20001024203926.D1664@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241632310.80784-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>; from schreyer@th.physik.uni-bonn.de on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:43:10PM %2B0200
References:  <14837.36344.340675.384466@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241632310.80784-100000@pauli.th.physik.uni-bonn.de>

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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 <deviceid><vendorid>
> 
> on the SRM console. We obtained <deviceid><vendorid> from the output of
> 
>   pciconf -l
> 
> on a running machine with the same graphics card giving something like
> 
>   ... card=0x<deviceid><vendorid> ...
> 
> 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 <deviceid> and <vendorid> 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



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