From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 7 15:26:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07058 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07051 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA18617; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:24:02 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA08843; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:24:00 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA07359; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:19:34 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602072319.AAA07359@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ATI 64 Problem! To: kng@hk.llinkage.net (Kwing Ng) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:19:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3118AD56.1D10@hk.llinkage.net> from "Kwing Ng" at Feb 7, 96 09:47:02 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)