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From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Mach-64 problems in Textmode!!!
Date: 14 Jan 1996 02:51:41 +0100
Organization: La Calandre Infortunee
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Frank ten Wolde (franky@pinewood.nl) wrote:
: We've got an Intel Atlantis board with a built-in Mach64 video card.
: Same problem.  Have to disable the probes for the serial ports otherwise
: the Mach64 is put in an inoperable state.

The strange thing is that it is not sufficient to disable the 4th serial
port (which has a conflict with I/O-port 0x2e8 that the Mach-64 uses) but
you've got to disable *all* serial ports. I wouldn't guess myself that
*that* would be the solution (or rather: workaround).

Hopefully this problem gets noted and added to the FAQ. It would be
really nice if disabling the 4th serial port would be enough to leave
0x2e8..0x2ef alone, so there should be a few changes to sio.c.

Greetings,
   Geert
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