Thus spake john: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get my Voodoo3 card to do DRI with X4.1.0. > > The catch is that the card (a Voodoo3 2000 PCI) needs to be set as bus > master. When I try to use setpci > I find that the bit for bus master is never set. > > The motherboard is a LX/EX based board, with onboard sound, ATI 3D > graphics etc. > The BIOS is AMI, and is one of those funky graphical interfaces. There > are no options to enable a PCI slot to bus master there. > There are no jumpers on the MB that I can see to set Bus Master on any > PCI slots. > > I have a PCI SMC Ethernet card, and it is set as Bus Master... I never > set it so I assume the Bios did it itself. > > The onboard ATI is set as bus master, and uses AGP. Could this be why > the Voodoo won't take the Bus Master bit? > > Or does anyone know any resources on the web to do low level bit > twiddling in AMI bios's? > Or have any other ideas? I'm not familiar with their BIOS particulalrly, but BIOS's often have a place where you can set it to look first at PCI, then fall back to AGP - if it has that, that may solve it for you. Good luck, Steve -- Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
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