hanging 2940-AU: good points but still need help!

[Brian Ristuccia]

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:

> >       Non-prefetchable 64 bit memory at 0x80000020.
>                                             ^^^^^^^^
> 
> All four of the addresses here are in definite conflict with the frame
> buffer on the video card.  Once XFree86 is started, I'm sure it's hosing the
> SIS PCI chipset that controls your motherboard.  In order to make things
> work, you probably need to find some way of remapping that PCI frame buffer
> address on the video card.  In general, this looks like something where NT
> is remapping the device, XFree86 isn't, and it's hosing the system.
> 

There's a utility called pcitune somewhere that might help you solve this
problem. It lets you mess with all the various PCI options. I'm not sure
if it lets you reassign/remap address space. 

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Brian Ristuccia
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bristucc at baynetworks.com
bristucc at cs.uml.edu


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