Subject: Re: is ANYONE running multiple vga cards right now.
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/27/1999 17:26:03
> Also, isn't VGA's video RAM always at 0xa0000? I even see that address
> hardcoded in sys/dev/ic/vga.c. Makes it sound like it might be pretty
> tough getting multiple cards running in text mode :(
You're right -- for ISA video cards.
But I'm talking about PCI video cards, which have to use address ranges
assigned to them by the BIOS.
There's a reason the i386 GENERIC config file does it like this:
vga0 at isa?
vga* at pci? device ? function ?
You get one ISA card, but as many PCI/AGP cards as you have slots for.
Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com