All Viper VLB's should work with this server, hopefully… :-) Due
to Diamond's putting the same BIOS in some Viper VLB's as are used in
Viper PCI's, the probe may detect you have a Viper PCI when you really
have a Viper VLB. If this happens, put chipset "vipervlb"
into your XF86Config file.
This should now work, thanks to help from Bob Hollinger and Matt Thomas.
You may to specify the chipset "viperpci" in your XF86Config
file.
You'll also need to specify an IOBase and a MemBase.
You can obtain these values with PCIDUMP.EXE.
This program may be obtained
by sending email to xserver@summit.novell.com with the two lines:
send *p9kYou should run this program and change these values after you add more PCI cards or move existing cards to different slots. According to David DeWolfe (SXDJD@orca.alaska.edu), you need to run
PCIDUMP.EXE after a clean boot
to DOS (with no AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS).
This may be accomplished by holding down the SHIFT
key while DOS is booting.
Eventually we would like to autodetect the IOBase and
memBase, but this doesn't yet work.
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