Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 13:40:20 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with sio probe and Mach64 PCI video card Message-ID: <199511300240.NAA21779@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199511300043.BAA17117@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 30, 95 01:43:02 am
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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 :-). 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). David
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