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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:33:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        Douglas Russell <russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ATI Mach64D
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960321193236.27794P-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960321171418.3386A-100000@fsb>

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yes, ATI and some of the com ports conflict, I don't remember which 
ones.  Disable sio3 and sio4 or is it sio2 and sio3, and then go crazy.  
If that fixes it, build a new kernel that doesn't include those drivers.

On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Douglas Russell wrote:

> 
> Hello happy FreeBSD people....
> 
> Last night I put together a new Pentium 150 machine for a friend of mine 
> with an ATI Mach64D PCI video card.  When we went to install FreeBSD 
> 2.1.0-RELEASE on it, booting from the standard install floppy, as soon as 
> it gets to the sio (si0?  whetever it is, I don't have anything in front 
> of me right now), the standard console driver, right after it does the 
> CPU type determination, the video goes nuts.  It switches to some wild 
> mode that basically just comes out snow.  I tried another video card (an 
> old Trident or something, ISA) it worked fine...  
> 
> Has anyone had this kind of problem before, or any ideas what it might 
> be?  The motherboard is a Gigabyte, chipset Triton, pipeline cache...  
> The card is an OEM 64D with 2 megs.  We removed the only other card from 
> the system (one of my network cards, a 3COM 3c509), and it didn't help.  
> (Not surprisingly, but worth a shot...)
> 
> I figure it must me some kind of strange incompatibility in the sio 
> console driver.  I'm thinking that if we install the system with another 
> video card installed, then compile a new kernel using the vt2 console 
> driver instead, it may work.  On the other hand, maybe that one won't 
> work either.
> 
> Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated.  Please email them to one 
> of my addresses (preferably the primary one), as I don't regularly 
> subscribe to the questions list.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Later......						<Doug>
> 
> Primary Address :	drussell@internode.net
> Computer Science:	russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
> ACS Account     :	dwrussel@acs.ucalgary.ca
> 
> 



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