From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 09:52:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA11271 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11266 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA08626; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:48:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603051748.KAA08626@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Intel Atlantis problems To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:48:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603051523.QAA06350@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Mar 5, 96 04:23:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I just got an Intel Atlantis MB (the one with an on-board video and > soundcard). I have a strange problem with FreeBSD (only tried 2.1R): > > the screen goes blank soon after probing sc0: Disable all your serial ports. They are like potato chips, once you probe one, you have to probe them all. 8-). You are running a Mach or similar video system that references port 2e8, even though it isn't supposed to unless the video is put into a particular IBM compatible mode. The video is broken. 2e8 is com4. You can modify the sio.c and rebuild a kernel that won't probe it after you have installed. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.