oh ok, thanks, I was about to order that book.  I haven't get a chance to
try the new floppy bootable image you have up there yet.  Got another
project that is keeping me a bit busy for a few days.  Hope to spend some
time on it next week.

Qiwen

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, bob meader wrote:

> 
> 
> qiwen@glue.phys.washington.edu wrote:
> 
> > >
> >
> > Maybe this could be of help.  I found a NEC installation and configuration
> > guide.  There is another guide call "RISCserver 2200 Service and
> > Technical Reference Manual (819-181083-000).
> 
> I have that guide no help!
> 
> > It provides information for
> > maintaining, troubleshooting and repairing the system.  Its intended for
> > programmers, and engineers who need to know how the system is
> > deisgned.  You can get this from NEC, 1-800-325-5500 and the the reference
> > menual code is 819-181083-000.
> >
> > Here is a a bit of information from the installation book and
> > also a a configuration dump of my system.
> >
> > The Video card is a BitBLT controller interated on the 16 bit ISA bus.  It
> > come with 1 MB of video memory support resolutions up to 1024 by 768 with
> > 256 colors and 1280 by 1024 with 16 colors.  This board operates on the 64
> > bit Local VXL bus and provides 2 MB(VRAM) of memory which is upgradeable
> > to 4 MB, a 100 MB/sec bandwidth, linear frame buffer, and 24-bit ramdac
> > with full support for true color.
> >
> 
> The statement above is  WRONG! The 'arc' firmware
> reports the displaycontroller attached the 'jazz' bus
> which is completely different physical address
> from ISA/EISA bus.
> 
> Note for Warner Losh ... he suggested
> I use the 'arc' printout to get the
> physical address...NEC chose to report a
> ''vendor defined record' instead of using
> 'Arc' defined resouce records.
> 
> Oh could please check "RISCserver 2200 Service and
> Technical Reference Manual" to see if display address
> is listed.
> 
> Oh I was wondering did you get the Netbsd installed yet?
> 
> >
> >          id: 18:[Jazz-Internal Bus\x00]
> >
> >                 class: Controller, type: DisplayController
> >                  flags: ConsoleOut|Output
> >                  version: 0, revision: 1
> >                  key: 0
> >                  affinity_mask: 0xffffffff
> >                  config_data_len: 32
> >                  id: 9:[necvdfrb\x00]
> >                  config data version: 1, revision: 0, count: 1245188
> >                  resource count 1245188 too big: use 1 instead
> >                   type: Null
> >                    share_disposition: Undetermined, flags: 0x9000
> >                    data: [0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0]
> >                  raw count: [0x4:0x0:0x13:0x0]
> >                  raw data:
> > 24:[0x0:0x0:0x0:0x90:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x0:0x10:0x91:0x0:0x0:0xc:0x0]
> 
> 
>