Re: the video card between a rock and hard place...[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Przemyslaw Kacprzak <P.Kacprzak%elka.pw.edu.pl@localhost>]

Paul (NCC/CS.) wrote:
> here's a question, 
> I don't know how easy it will be to answer but here goes,
>
> does anyone know of a video card that uses a PCI ex slot 
> that would be compatible with XF86? 
Do you mean PCI Express? 

> I think this illustrates my problem as XF 86 hasn't been 
> updated since 2003 ( by my limited research ) and the 
> PCI ex slot wasn't invented until 2004. 
> So my card for PCI ex will therefore not have much support
> from XF86.
>   
I'm using one right now (I'm almost sure this card is PCI Express x16).
I use XFree from NetBSD4, earlier it worked with NetBSD3 (or 3.1
I don't remember).

Relevant parts od dmesg:
agp0 at pchb0: can't find internal VGA device config space
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: Intel 82915P/G/GL PCI Express Bridge 
(rev. 0x0e)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 4
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: NVIDIA GeForce 6200LE (rev. 0xa1)
vga1: WARNING: ignoring 64-bit BAR @ 0x14
vga1: WARNING: ignoring 64-bit BAR @ 0x1c

Parts of XFree0.log:

(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o
(II) Module nv: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
       compiled for 4.5.0, module version = 1.0.1
       Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
       ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.8
[...]
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 04:00:0
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Chipset GeForce 6200 LE found

Hope this helps,
 Przemek