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From: chris@riv...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Help with S3 video card needed
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:35:42 GMT

I brought up (yet another variant) Plan 9 box yesterday; a known-to-
work video card failed because of an address conflict with an SMC
8416 ethernet card.  The fix was to find a new (programmable in
EEPROM) address space for the ethernet card (IRQ was fine where it
was).  The presence of this card continues to generate error messages
about that address space, but everything works.

Suggest you attempt to bring up your card either on another motherboard,
or with as many other devices disabled/removed as possible, just to
simplify what's going on for you.  Once you've seen that card working,
it will give you a better feel for the nature of the problem of getting
everything working together.  You also might want to try to borrow
another video card and/or motherboard (and/or ethernet card!)  That
could be a long-term strategy, if you currently don't have connections
to make that happen (join a computer club!)

Hope that's helpful.
 
Chris Hafey <chris@riv...>
(also tingri@ntp...)