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Hello,

On Oct 17, 2006, at 15:38, Chris Tribo wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Michael wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Maybe that'll fix the Rage LT Pro?

Maybe - if something else keeps hammering the LT's IO registers. That 
should be easy to check though.

have fun
Michael
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