Re: dual adapters, ISA and integrated

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On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, David Koski wrote:

> I have an old PowerMate V75 with an intergrated video that is too
> incapable for XF86 so I added an old Mach32 ISA card.  I was able to get
> it to not conflict by setting the integrated video to monochrome.  But I
> was not  able to disable it completely.  Now when I try to configure
> XF86Config (Debian, current, just installed) using the debian
> configuration program it asks for a PCI ID number.  But I want to
> configure for the ISA card (Mach32).  I am at loss how to do it
> manually.

Assuming that the system's BIOS chose the Mach32 as the primary adapter,
you should be able to generate a workable XF86Config using `XFree86
-configure`.  However, the Mach32 will be treated as a VGA Wonder.  I.e.,
in 4.*, there is no support for Mach32 acceleration like there was in
XFree86 3.*.

Marc.

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