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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
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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

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