Subject: Re: PCI video (was: isapnp not found)
To: Mark Andres <mark@giganet.net>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/11/1998 15:03:30
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mark Andres wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It's a good thing I saw this. I was going to buy an S3 Trio64+ today for a
> PC I am building.  Since the S3 Trio is common and well supported by XF86,
> I assumed it would be OK with NetBSD.
> 
> So, this begs the question, what PCI video cards *are* supported in
> NetBSD?  

Wait a sec!!

> > Nor do we support the graphics card as a PCI device.
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That doesn't mean XFree86 won't support it, just we don't have a driver
for it in the kernel which attaches as a PCI device.

I don't think we support ANY video cards AS PCI DEVICES. They still work,
and XFree86 is happy. They just don't use kernel-based drivers.

Take care,

Bill