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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl!fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl!not-for-mail From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Please advise on hardware! Endeavor/Atlantis/Buslogic - do they work for you? Date: 17 Apr 1996 12:57:09 +0200 Organization: La Calandre Infortunee Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4l2iq5$1hc@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> References: <4knqe8$2sp@nntp1.best.com> <4l15lb$16g@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Geordan Rosario (geordan@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: `` NOOO!!!! RUN AWAY! (er, sorry.) The ATI Mach64 built into the Atlantis is insane in that it lives on the same port address as sio3 (COM4), so upon startup FreeBSD would hang, since FreeBSD probes all the sio ports. There is a solution, which involves editing sio.c and recompiling. '' Indeed, there is a problem with the sio3 addresses, but many other chipsets use those addresses too (S3, for example). The difference is that the other videocards that use address 0x2e8 only enable that address when for example the X server sets the graphical mode. That's why they don't have problems with the sio probing. Nonetheless, it's rather easy and straightforward to work around this problem if you look at the FAQs. In regular use I think the cards provide very good value for the money, especially when they are used with 2 MB DRAM. There is no need to run away from those cards for use with FreeBSD. Regards, Geert -- E-Mail: geert@sun3.iaf.nl *** As far as we know, there have not been *** Phone: +31-53-4303054 ** any undetected failures in our software. **