According to the denizens of the netbsd-users list, the effect that I'm seeing is due to the fact that the vga(4) driver under NetBSD actually uses the ISA registers for VGA cards, which are apparently mapped[1] to their PCI equivalents in most PCI-capable host boards, but not the Soekris for some reason. I'm not a hardware geek so can't really confirm this, but it may also explain why other hardware is recognised but refuses to function if access to the hardware is via legacy ISA registers.
I have found that there is a frame-buffer driver for this card for NetBSD and will see how I go getting a frame-buffer console running with that ... Regards, Malcolm [1] how this is done, I'm not sure, but see: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/02/28/msg000308.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2008/02/28/msg000304.html (beginning of thread) -- Malcolm Herbert This brain intentionally [EMAIL PROTECTED] left blank _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
