> Hello friends,
>
> Please forgive me if I'm an idiot, but I'm wondering about the IO
> values listed in /proc/pci. When I boot my system and log in, my video
> card shows this:
>
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 0).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 9.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
>
> Once I've started X, it looks like this (note the IO address):
>
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Trio32/Trio64 (rev 0).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 9.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xe0000000].
>
> The above output remains forever, whether I'm in X or not. Once I start
> it, it switches to this and never goes back.
Looks like X is changing the PCI settings of the graphics card.... That's
possible to do, but WHY?
[I don't know how X handles PCI settings - but I have the databooks on the
S3Trio64V+ and ViRGE - both of which allow PCI settings to be changed]
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis