Subject: Re: PCI video (was: isapnp not found)
To: Mark Andres <mark@giganet.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/11/1998 18:09:51
Mark Andres writes:
> 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.

It will.

> So, this begs the question, what PCI video cards *are* supported in
> NetBSD?  

NetBSD has no particular support for any video hardware. That is all
handled by XFree. If XFree handles a PCI video card, NetBSD will do
okay with it.

Perry

> Mark
> 
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Peter Simons wrote:
> > 
> > >  | S3 Trio32/64 (VGA display, revision 0x54) at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not
> > >  | 	configured
> > 
> > Nor do we support the graphics card as a PCI device.
> 
>    Mark Andres               E-mail: mark@giganet.net
>           Running NetBSD, 100% Microsoft Free!
>    Me & NetBSD: http://www2.giganet.net/~mark/NetBSD/
>