Re: dual adapters, ISA and integrated

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On Mon, 5 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.*.

> The primary adapter seems to be  the  built  in one.  I set it  to
> monochrome mode because I couldn't disable  it  and in VGA mode it only
> has 1 Meg of memory.  The secondary one is the Mach32 in a ISA slot.
> (Actually  I tried a Rendition V1000-E with similar results).  The
> problem seems to be when xf86cfg and xf86config configure for the
> primary.  But I solved the  problem by installing LTSP (www.ltsp.org)
> software.  It is faster anyway as the hard disk is slow.  Now the
> computer is just an X terminal (hard disk disconnected).

I would still suggest `XFree86 -configure`.

Marc.

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