Michael wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > IRQs below 23 and all the PCI slots fire fine and consistently. Sliding
> > the mouse around fires the IRQ for that USB card slot. The bm
> > definitely seems to be misbehaving though. It's IRQ's seem to fire for
> > bursts up to about 100 per second, then drop to 0 for a second, then
> > burst back and none.
> That's certainly odd. I assume the others continue firing when bm takes its break?
> 
> > Is XFree86 supposed to work on the built in Rage IIc+ chip?
> Depend. In theory - yes. In real life - maybe, Riccardo got his 4400 to work but apparently X gets the amount of video RAM wrong and uses only 1MB or so.

yeah, I don't know if I have 2 or 4 mb of vram. I think 4... but who
knows... I have a VRAM expansion.

> 
> > There  doesn't seem to be an ati driver loading for it. If I switch from vga
> > to ati the logs say it loads rage128 and radeon but I didn't see any
> > Rage Pro chips listed and the X server bails.
> What exactly does it say? Any complains about memory mapping around 0xa0000?

hmmm...

here I had to hard-limit ram usage and have artifacted display at about
every bit-depth and resolution, but the problem comes very clear at 1024
or s. seems like some part of the screens are addressed more than one
(you type and see parts of your xterm elsewhere on the screen).

but you can get an X to start up.

But I use michael's patched X server

-R