>>>>> In <20021113220400.GB9077@rakefet> >>>>> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002, Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I don't see what special support is required for VLB bus. >> > It should work like an ISA Bus system as long as you are >> > not trying to get a VLB/PCI motherboard to work. >> > We have no knowledge of VLB-PCI bridges therefore it is not >> > unlikely that you run into trouble with these systems. >> The board is an old 486 VLB + ISA buses without PCI connectors. >> I too don't know what special support is required for VLB bus. Yet I >> believe I have read somewhere that one problem of the ISA cards is that >> letting them have lot of on board memory is problematic because this >> memory can be mapped to other memory areas which might have memory >> installed in them. This was no problem when memory chips were specified >> in KB, but is sure problematic when 100th of MB is considered standard. >> This might be connected with the fact that ISA is a 16 bits bus while >> VLB is a 32 bits. Or am I wrong about it? BTW, my card has 2 MB on board >> memory. I am quite sure that ISA cards with more then 1 MB of memory are >> rare if not non existent. >> In addition, the same hardware is working with 3.3.6 and I will try to >> explain below why I was expecting it to work with 4.2.1. Another thing >> is that 4.2.1 tells me that: >> >> (II) S3: driver (version 0.3.5 for S3 chipset: 964-0, 964-1, 968, >> Trio32/64, Aurora64V+ >> (II) Primary Device is: ISA >> (EE) No devices detected. I believe that current S3 driver for XFree86 4 does not support ISA Bus (only for PCI). S3 card probing function S3Probe() in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/s3/s3_driver.c is only probe PCI cards. ISA card detecting is not implemented yet. Comment in the function says... /* XXX do ISA later... some day in the distant future... */ -- ISHIKAWA Mutsumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
