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On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Michael wrote:

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> Hello,
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> On Oct 16, 2006, at 19:22, Michael Lorenz wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Turns out machfb doesn't even try to map it so I just disabled IO  
> accesses and the problem went away.
>

Maybe that'll fix the Rage LT Pro?


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