Re: neomagic 256AV/3com 3c575_cb problem

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Joshua Pollak wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am having trouble getting my Neomagic 256AV and 3com 3c575_cb to work 
> together. Whenever I start X with the PCMCIA card inserted, I get a blank 
> screen and the computer locks up. I assume this has something to do with the 
> IRQ sharing, as both deviced (as well as the sound card and a bunch of other 
> things) all share IRQ 9. If I eject the PCCard, X starts up fine.
> 
> This is on Gentoo 1.4 ( I was having the same problem with Gentoo 1.2), with 
> pcmcia-cs-3.2.1 and xfree-4.2.0. 
> 
> I noticed this thread:
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/neomagic/2002-June/001099.html
> 
> which seems to be the exact same problem, but there was no resolution at the 
> end of the thread. Did anything come of this?

It came up again in the thread:
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/neomagic/2002-August/001153.html

As Andy says, this is now fixed in CVS.

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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