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Re: unconfigured generic ATI VGA card?



On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:21:19PM +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:57:29 +0000 (GMT), "Stephen Borrill"
> <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost> said:
> > On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> 
> > > radeonfb*       at pci? function ?      # ATI Radeon. R3xx is
> > > problematic
> > 
> > That's for a framebuffer, not a VGA text console.
> 
> hmmm ... OK, fair point ... 
> 
> > You need to find a way to get vga* to attach:
> > 
> > vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: NVIDIA Vanta (rev. 0x15)
> 
> ... so why wouldn't it?  Is it because this system is generally
> expecting a serial console only?  If I power on the host with the
> monitor plugged in I don't get the typical video-card greet (nor the
> BIOS greet, but I wasn't really expecting that, tbh).

vga(4) actually drives the ISA interface.  On the Soekris, the ISA
registers for the VGA aren't mapped to anything.

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