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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.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!esiee.fr!sgigate.sgi.com!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Trio64 w/FreeBSD 2.2, >16MB ram? Date: 14 Jun 1996 23:38:35 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4pst5r$j31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4phs6k$51e@marina.cinenet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mercier@cinenet.net (Bob Mercier) wrote: > I've got a S3 video card with the Trio64 chipset (Diamond > stealth + Video). This card worked fine until I added > 16 more MB of ram, I took it from 8 to 24 and the card > quit working. About 1 time in 10 it'll come up and run > fine, otherwise it hangs up hard. > > I tried turning off bounce buffers (I have a PCI SCSI controller) > but I also have an IDE controller (does it do DMA?). Nothing It does not, you don't need bounce buffers. I've got this combination working (in two machines now, with video cards from different vendors, both having 32 MB RAM), no problems. Your problem must be of another kind. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)