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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mach64 Xserver problem.
Date: 14 Feb 1996 08:15:21 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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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.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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