From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 19:31:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA09114 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:31:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA09102 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:31:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA28264; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:33:19 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:33:18 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Douglas Russell cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ATI Mach64D In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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...... > > Primary Address : drussell@internode.net > Computer Science: russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca > ACS Account : dwrussel@acs.ucalgary.ca > >