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From: Peter@lwab.se (Peter Landgren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mach64 Xserver problem.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:41:38 GMT
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>magner@hstud1.cs.uit.no (Magne Rasmussen) writes:
>> I have an ATI Mach64 Xpression PCI w/2Mb DRAM. When I try to run the
>> Mach64 XServer on a FreeBSD 2.1.0R system, strange things happen:

>I'm not aware about Mach's terminology, but some of the newer Mach64's
>require a newer Xserver (still beta though) than XFree86 3.1.2.

>They also require a fix (or hack) to prevent the kernel from stomping
>over register 0x2e8 during sio probing.

So, please tell me, were do I find this fix?