From: lance@hartmann.austin.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: Re: S3 video card at different address
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin
Keywords: s3 video diamond addressing
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In article <1qmrdd$70h@umcc.umcc.umich.edu> jon@umcc.umcc.umich.edu (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>I'd like to add a second S3 based video card to my system.  Does anyone
>know of a company that sells a card that can coexist with another one?
>All I really need is color text on one monitor and fast color graphics
>on the other.
>
>Probably just a configurable address would do it.
>

For what it's worth (I haven't confirmed it), a Diamond tech-rep told
me that ALL S3-based video cards use port addresses 0x2E0 and 0x2E8.
If this is true, it appears that you canNOT use more than one S3 card
in your system.

Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
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