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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!admii!lhc!nih-csl!rwatson From: rwatson@nih.gov (Robert Watson) Subject: ATI Mach64 card w/pci bus -- 12 meg bug? Message-ID: <1995Jun8.145327.1950@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Nntp-Posting-Host: kronos.nchgr.nih.gov Organization: National Institutes of Health X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 14:53:27 GMT Lines: 37 This is more of an XFree86 question, but sinceI am running under FreeBSD I thought someone here would know.. I'm purchasing a new computer system next month to run FreeBSD on -- currently it will likely be a Pentium 120 w/32 megs of ram. My originaly purchase choice for video card (for use with X) was the ATI Mach64 card. I read on the XFree site that the ISA version of the card had a memory aperture problem such that Xfree could only use it with a 12mb ram system. This is a problem, as I'd like to run an SVGA driver on a 32 meg system. I'm getting a PCI card, and was wondering if this bug (or whatever) still applied to that card, and whether I should just get a different video card or not. It would seem to me that the bug wouldn't apply, as this is the PCI version. But who knows. Also, is the PCI version supported? One or two other questions -- has anyone used the 2.0.5 Intel Etherexpress support? Our router is using 3 smc cards for thinnet support, and we added an Intel etherexpress card to it, and the support will be available once we install 2.0.5-R when it is released, and we'd like any advice on getting it to work (other than the initial installation.) In theory nothing conflicts -- but we've never tried routing 4 ethernet cards on a freebsd system before.. ;) Also, with regards to 2.0.5 -- is the ipfirewall documentation updated and any feature support added for ipfw stuff? Our new network segment would benefit from firewall support. I noticed a dosemu package on freefall a few weeks ago -- is there a a development effort going on for a dos eumlator for FreeBSD at this point? Thanks .. (sorry for typoes, etc -- I've got a 1-2 second delay on keypresses, making it a little challenging to type right, let alone correct..) -- Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.