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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:19:34 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        kng@hk.llinkage.net (Kwing Ng)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATI 64 Problem!
Message-ID:  <199602072319.AAA07359@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <3118AD56.1D10@hk.llinkage.net> from "Kwing Ng" at Feb 7, 96 09:47:02 pm

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As Kwing Ng wrote:
> 
> My System is ASUS PCI/I-P54NP4D with Pentium-100 and 32M ram
> and my vga card is ASUS PCI-V264CT card (ATI MAch 64)
> When I use boot floppy disk to bootup and prepare to install FreeBSD
> and the screen change BLANK,

Disable _all_ serial ports.  (Boot with -c)

ATI changed there policy and does now care for register 0x2e8 even in
non-enhanced mode, and the probe for the serial ports stomps on this
register.  It has been fixed in current systems.

If you need to stay with the o/s version you have, remove the value
0x2e8 from the list in line 342 of /sys/i386/isa/sio.c (line number
only valid for stock 2.1R), and rebuild your kernel.  Of course, don't
configure your kernel to use sio3 at all.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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