From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 30 00:22:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA07155 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:22:22 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA07138 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:21:57 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA28536; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:21:22 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA14409; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:21:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA18885; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:13:14 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511300813.JAA18885@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problem with sio probe and Mach64 PCI video card To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 09:13:14 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511300240.NAA21779@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Nov 30, 95 01:40:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 752 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As David Dawes wrote: > > >As David Dawes wrote: > >S3 can coexist with traditional COM4, since it's possible to remap > >their IO registers (they only default to the 8514-compatible mode). > >XFree86 didn't implement this however [...] > > We did make an attempt at implementing it, but found that there were > problems using it with some of the S3 chips :-( (grep for COM4 in the > XFree86 CHANGELOG). Hmm, perhaps it would be worth another try, assuming that all the newer chips are no longer broken with this respect? (I seem to remember that the broken chips were some 86C805's.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)