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From: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PCI support
Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:57:27 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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Sender: se@Sysiphos (Stefan Esser)
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References: <nd4rawol1wb.fsf@burg.is.ge.com>
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To: burg@burg.is.ge.com (Dick van den Burg)

In article <nd4rawol1wb.fsf@burg.is.ge.com>, burg@burg.is.ge.com (Dick van den Burg) writes:
|> I will be getting a HP Vectra XM 5/120 at work. Windows 95 claims
|> the following:
|> 
|> Display: Cirrus Logic PCI

The common Cirrus chips should
be supported under XFree86.
You'll have to find out, which 
accelerared X server to choose.

|> Network: AMD PCNET family Ethernet Adapter (PCI&ISA)

That's a Lance compatible chip,
AFAIK. You'lll have to manually
configure the port address and 
irq, but it should work.

|> CMD PCI-0640 PCI to EDI Controller

That one emulates an ISA IDE 
controller, and needs no PCI
driver for this reason ...

|> I could not find support for the Network card in the source, nor am I 
|> sure that the display card is supported by XF86.

Just try lnc0 for the Ethernet
driver, that should do ...

|> Does anybody have more information on whther I can use this system to run
|> FreeBSD 2.1R ?

I'd say: YES, it will work.

Regards, STefan
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