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From: Goetz Fischer <gofi1033@itrsp2.fb10.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: pci mach64 blanks screen
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Wed Dec  6 21:41:14 1995
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> From: "Joseph D. Orthoefer" <j_orthoefer@tia.net>
> To: Scott Turvey <scottt@nacm.com>
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> Subject: Re: pci mach64 blanks screen. Was: User and Developer Support
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> On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Scott Turvey wrote:
> 
> > i am having a problem getting freebsd to display during=20
> > boot using an ati pci-based svga card.  when it get to the video =
> > portion of the boot process, the signal to my monitor disappears =
> > and the monitor goes into powersave mode.  a regular ati isa-based =
> > card works fine.  anyone seen this?
> 
> I have the same problem w/ an AST Bravo pentium-100.  It has a Mach64
> ati-264ct chip integrated on the mother board.  When probing for the sc0
> or pc0 device it blanks the screen and stays blank.   

Hi !
I have same problem with Gigabyte GA-586ATE PB Cache Mainboard and 
Asus PCI-V264CT (ATI OEM mach64 Xpession 2MB Dram). Powermanagement on 
Motherboard is disabled and my old Montor has no PM . What to do?? 
Wait for next release? Hope for help.

By Goetz