Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:04:45 -0600 (CST) From: "Rich O." <ttor@tznet.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PWS 433au FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <20050316205614.C2673@mail.tznet.com> In-Reply-To: <b5b4b353e86e95c612faabaecf7203ea@mcgillsociety.org> References: <20050308185547.B58895@mail.tznet.com> <20050309070118.GB14973@freebie.xs4all.nl> <b5b4b353e86e95c612faabaecf7203ea@mcgillsociety.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, William H. Magill wrote: > On 09 Mar, 2005, at 02:01, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:59:16PM -0600, Rich O. wrote.. >> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Or I suppose even a video >>> card recommendation that would be known to work with the PWS 433au and >>> FreeBSD 5.3. >> >> An old Matrox Millenium II served me wel. But I also used various >> no-name S3 cards successfully. No longer have a PWS myself. > > Generally speaking, the Matrox Millennium seems to be the board of > preference. > Well, seeing as how the Matrox Millenium seems to be the card of choice I found one and swapped out the original tga card that came with my pws. Unfortunately I'm still having problems booting FreeBSD 5.3. Watching the boot-up messages it boots up passed the isp0 driver and then prints a line saying: pci0: <display, CGA> at device 11.0 (no driver attached) After that line the PWS halts itself and gives halt code =5 with PC=1f00 (if that helps any) No other information, just that. The same thing happens when I use `boot -v` except it's more verbose with the starting of the isp0 and everything before that, but there really were no errors that I could see. Unless it was something being giant-locked though I've seen those with freebsd 5.2.1 and it still booted fine... show conf at the srm console shows that the Matrox Millenium II is being detected by the Alpha and I've tried switching between the two 64-bit PCI slots to no avail. I'm at a loss for what to do next and I'm hoping someone can help me, I'd rather not stay at 5.2.1 because it's been superceded by 5.3. Thanks. ~Rich O. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCOPPR0uIdAG/2leYRAqOOAJ9srUi5UAE41GDyM2VCxqtopKUxBQCdHIiC nRvVKfTa1M6rJIsatcIn1Bs= =eKs6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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