2 Supported Cards

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2.1 Diamond Viper VLB

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.

2.2 Diamond Viper PCI

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. These values may be obtained by running the scanpci program available via anonymous ftp from ftp.xfree86.org:/pub/XFree86/3.1.1/ScanPCI Part of the output of this program will look like:

pci slot at 0xce00, vendor 0x100e device 0x9001
 Diamond Viper/PCI
  STATUS    0x0400  COMMAND 0x0003
  CLASS     0x03 0x00 0x00  REVISION 0x03
  BASE0     0xa0000000  addr 0xa0000000  MEM
  BASE1     0x0000e001  addr 0x0000e000  I/O
  BASEROM   0xff800000  addr 0xff800000  not-decode-enabled

In this case, you would specify 0xe000 as the IOBase and 0xa0000000 as the memBase.

Eventually we would like to autodetect the IOBase and memBase, but this doesn't yet work.

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