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Hello,

On Oct 16, 2006, at 19:22, Michael Lorenz wrote:

> just for the records. I put a RealTek 8029 card ( cheap PCI NE2k 
> compatible ) into my Beige G3 only to find out that OF ( 2.0f1 ) must 
> be completely on drugs or something - it mapped both the 8029's and 
> the onboard graphics controller's I/O registers to 0x1000. So when ne 
> tries to attach it messes up the video output.
> Is that just me or can anyone reproduce this?

Turns out it's not OF - the graphics controller's OF properties only 
ever mention the aperture's address and don't say anything about the IO 
range. No idea how the 0x1000 got there, probably the ATI firmware.

> The obvious workaround would be to disable I/O accesses in machfb 
> since neither machfb nor XFree's atimisc driver actually care about 
> the I/O range - both prefer the memory-mapped registers.

Turns out machfb doesn't even try to map it so I just disabled IO 
accesses and the problem went away.

have fun
Michael
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