Yury Tarasievich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I still own ET6000 with famous 2.25Mb feature (or was it notorious > feature? :)
Well, it was a cheap way of getting 1024x768x24 to run. Which you couldn't do on less memory. :) But is sure caused problems, yes. Both in detecting the correct amount of memory (there are quite a few comments about in the driver still), and getting packet 24bpp to work (which wasn't all that common at the time). > In X 3.3.*, I never succeeded in telling it about having 2304Kb of > memory (VideoRAM 2304 was sure way to have X not started), and > autodetect always detected 2048Kb, so depriving me of some (seemingly > present) video modes. I didn't even try VideoRAM directive in 4.* :) > Were there any Tsengs ET6K with exactly 2048Kb? Hmm. Sounds as if you might have had a partly bad card or something as well. I seem to remember that specifying the videoram was the _only_ way to make it work for a while. But Koen spent quite a lot of time getting the memory detection right, if you check the driver it will probe roughly for the amount of memory from the config registers on the chip and then start walking along it testing the actual boundary. I think current XFree86 (and late 3.x XF86_SVGA) will do that correctly for most/all cards. As for 2MB cards, I never saw any of them at least. I believe there was just the 2.25 and 4MB versions available in large numbers. According to the databook it is possible to set up DRAM-based configurations with 1, 2 and 4MB, but I don't know of anyone who shipped them. With MDRAM-based designs I don't remember anymore if there existed versions with just 2 memory chips, the controller seems to be able to handle it. Mostly I seem to remember the different designs had different sizes of MDRAMS (different number of banks inside each chip or something). > I also never succeeded in adding video memory to my ET6000 adapter. :) That would probably be a challenge, yes. You would have to remove the MDRAMs and replace them with new ones, and probably do some other modifications as well. > So what is the XFree86-W32-3.3.6 doing there? Is its presence of any > significance? Should be none whatsoever. Just an added binary in /usr/X11R6/bin that is not being run. :) But I don't use Mandrake, so I don't know what influence it might have on the configuration tools etc. >>In addition I would probably have tried the card in a Windows-box or >>something, to verify that the hardware isn't broken. Some of the >>values in the logfile indicate some serious breakage. >> > I recall now, there can be some combinations of motherboards and > ET6K's that produce problems. I used ET6000 with some Tomato 430HX MB > for some time, and it just didn't do bitblits correctly in VGA mode! > (FUBAR'ed lists, controls backgrounds and alike) Setting up Win95 was > a real challenge. :) Ouch. :) -Harald -- Harald Nordg�rd-Hansen, Linpro AS <>< http://www.linpro.no/~hnh/ PB. 375, N-1601 Fredrikstad, Norway Phone/Fax: +47 6935 2424/25 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
