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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 1995 01:43:02 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        dawes@Physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Problem with sio probe and Mach64 PCI video card
Message-ID:  <199511300043.BAA17117@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511290510.QAA03876@suphys.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Nov 29, 95 04:10:08 pm

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As David Dawes wrote:
> 
> extents.  A serial port using the usual COM4 address simply can't
> coexist with these type of cards (S3, ATI, etc).

Funny that either COM4 as 8514 are IBM kids. :-)

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 (and i doubt somebody is
bothered enough to do it -- i would rather scratch a pad on my serial
card and reconnect the port to 0x268 or 0x368 :-).

-- 
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. ;-)



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