From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 20 05:22:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA06948 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 05:22:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA06942 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 05:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id ae26911; 20 Jul 96 13:02 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa08212; 20 Jul 96 12:06 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01026; Sat, 20 Jul 1996 11:04:08 GMT Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 11:04:08 GMT Message-Id: <199607201104.LAA01026@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: asafari@orbonline.net CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <31F07E18.4032@orbonline.net> (message from Artin Safari on Sat, 20 Jul 1996 02:35:04 -0400) Subject: Re: Serial Port Problems Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Artin Safari writes: > > I just recently installed FreeBSD but I have to disable all the COM > ports. As soon as the OS begins probing these ports, the screen goes > blank, all disk activity stops and after a few seconds, the monitor goes > into standby mode. Which version of FreeBSD was this? This is supposed to be fixed in 2.1.5, which came out this week. > Have you seen anything like this before. I am dying to get X-Windows > going but I can't because I cannot install my mouse. This sounds very much like problem with the ATI Mach 64 video card. If it is, the FAQ has a lot of information on how to sort this out. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/