On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:27:59AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I have connected two VGA cards and here is the scanpci -vv output.
>
> I am running OpenBSD 3.9.
>
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0e function 0x00: vendor 0x5333 device 0x8811
> S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]
> STATUS 0x0200 COMMAND 0x0003
> CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x54
> BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00
> BASE0 0xd4000000 addr 0xd4000000 MEM
> BASEROM 0xe3fb0000 addr 0xe3fb0000 not-decode-enabled
> MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x05
>
> pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0c function 0x00: vendor 0x5333 device 0x8901
> S3 Inc. 86c775/86c785 [Trio 64V2/DX or /GX]
> STATUS 0x0200 COMMAND 0x0003
> CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x16
> BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00
> BASE0 0xdc000000 addr 0xdc000000 MEM
> BASEROM 0x000c0000 addr 0x000c0000 not-decode-enabled
> MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b
>
> I am hoping that if I get a recent version of x.org running I can get these
> cards working. How to go about it? Last time around I had compiled XFree86
> but recently I compiled x.org on linux but it was PITA since it is
> maintained in git repositories in a non standard way. I dont want to torture
> myself. :-)
>
>
> What is your advice? Shall I go by the book and get OpenBSD bundled X and try
> say by upgrading to -current? Or shud I "make world" with XFree86? Or go the
> x.org way which I want to avoid?
>
> Please advise.
Of the possibilities you offer, going to -current sounds the least
painful. You could even try the OPENBSD_4_0 tag; it's not currently
supported, but you'll end with a system that is very close to what will
be released as 4.0.
Joachim
