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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: PCI: unable to boot/install
Date: 5 Jan 1995 15:01:30 GMT
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Stefan Esser (se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE) wrote:
: The pci code in NetBSD is based on an early
: version of that in FreeBSD, and there is no 
: reason a PCI VGA board shouldn't work !!!

Just to clarify, I'm running NetBSD 1.0 on some machines and 1.0-current
on others each with PCI VGA controllers (and PCI SCSI) and am having
no problems whatsoever...

In fact, I'm running XF86 3.1 at 1536x1102 all viewable and it
screams (ATI Mach32)...

(Also, I'm not sure but I think NetBSD's PCI code was totally redone
by Charles but your mileage may vary).

(I don't represent NetBSD in any way)

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