As I recall, the display works because NetBSD uses the BIOS routines to
manipulate the display.

On my x86 box, it also claims that my video adapter is not configured,
but things work just fine in text mode, and then X takes over....

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Space Case wrote:

> Well, I replaced the POS Gateway motherboard (too slow) with this thing
> that I'm having a hard time identifying (words on the box and the single
> sheet of documentation contain the words "Socket 7 Series", TX-PRO, TOP
> GUN and M575).  And I also have a Genoa Phantom 3D/DX graphics board.
> 
> In the dmesg output below, you'll see four 'not configured' items:
>  - an Acer Labs 0x1531 host bridge
>  - a S3 0x8a01 VGA display
>  - an Acer Labs M5229 IDE controller
>  - the audio, which has four "not configured" lines itself
> 
> The IDE and graphics seem to work even though it claims they're not
> configured.  How can this be?
> 
> And, what do I need to do to get everything configured -- especially
> the sound?
> 
> ~Steve
> 
> NetBSD 1.3G (GATEWAY) #9: Thu Aug 20 22:34:29 PDT 1998
>     root2@gateway:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GATEWAY
> cpu0: family 5 model 6 step 2
> cpu0: AMD K6 (586-class)
> real mem  = 66715648
> avail mem = 58925056
> using 840 buffers containing 3440640 bytes of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
> pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
> Acer Labs product 0x1531 (host bridge, revision 0xb3) at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0
> pcib0: Acer Labs M1543 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0xb4)
> ahc1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0
> ahc1: interrupting at irq 9
> ahc1: aic7850 Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, 3 SCBs
> ahc1: Host Adapter Bios disabled.  Using default SCSI device parameters
> scsibus0 at ahc1 channel 0: 8 targets
> ahc1: target 1 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0xf
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST32550N, 0012> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 2047MB, 3511 cyl, 11 head, 108 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4194058 sectors
> S3 product 0x8a01 (VGA display, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured
> Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE Controller (IDE mass storage, interface 0xfa, revision 0x20) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
> isa0 at pcib0
> ne0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f irq 10
> ne0: NE2000 Ethernet
> ne0: Ethernet address 00:00:e8:a7:2a:31
> ne1 at isa0 port 0x300-0x31f irq 11
> ne1: NE2000 Ethernet
> ne1: Ethernet address 00:00:e8:a7:2b:3c
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
> wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
> atapibus0 at wdc0
> wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <ST32122A>
> wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba mode
> wd0 2014MB, 4092 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4124736 sectors
> fe_simple_probe: ff & 70 != 0
> ate_match: ate_find failed
> fe_simple_probe: ff & 70 != 0
> fmv_match: fmv_find failed
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> sysbeep0 at pcppi0
> isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
> pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
> pc0: console
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.2MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 15 sec
> fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> isapnp0: read port 0x203
> isapnp0: <CMI8330. Audio Adapter, @@@0001, , > port 0x530/8,0x388/8 irq 11 drq 0 not configured
> isapnp0: <CMI8330. Audio Adapter, @H@0001, , > port 0x320/2 irq 5 not configured
> isapnp0: <CMI8330. Audio Adapter, @P@0001, , > port 0x200/8 not configured
> isapnp0: <CMI8330. Audio Adapter, @X@0001, , > port 0x220/16 irq 5 drq 1,5 not configured
> biomask 4240 netmask 4e40 ttymask 4ec2
> disklabel: BIOS sees chs 3511/11/108 as 998/191/22
> WARNING: old BSD partition ID!
> disklabel: BIOS sees chs 4092/16/63 as 1023/64/63
> boot device: wd0
> root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
> root file system type: ffs
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve Allen - wormey@eskimo.com   http://www.eskimo.com/~wormey/   ICQ 6709819
> 
> Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic
> without looking to see whether the seeds move.
> 
> Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.  
> It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
> 	-Kyle Hearn  <kyle@intex.net>
> 
> Next Friday will not be your lucky day.  As a matter of fact, you don't
> have a lucky day this year.
> 

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