Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 15:54:51 +0200 From: ghard@walrus.megabaud.fi (Yrjänä Rankka) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: PCI card and a Compaq blues Message-ID: <199601051357.PAA11228@walrus.megabaud.fi>
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In some previous messages in freebsd-questions I've gathered, that there seems to be some general problems involving Compaq PCs equipped with PCI HW. I recently had the kind of problems someone had with an Adaptec SCSI, but mine's was a NCR-based card. Depending of the version of Diagnostics/SETUP used the computer either recognised the card or not, and I wasn't able to define an IRQ for it. In my case the probes identified the card properly, but couldn't allocate an IRQ (Irq 255 Invalid). I could get as far as getting the xserver's login screen, but then the machine would hang up with a continuous beep from the speakers. My version of FreeBSD is 2.0.5-R from CDROM and I'm having no difficulties running it on a fresh-from-the-box Presario CDS 772 with the IDE disk and the IDE CDROM-hack I glued on works nicely too. So I trashed the NCR board and ordered an Adaptec PCI card instead and now I'm wondering whether this will work or not... If someone has a working system with this hardware, please enlighten me. It would be nice to have a bit more complete reference on hardware people are using to run FreeBSD. If someone's working no such a list, here's mine: Compaq CDS 772 (P5 75MHz 256k cache, 8 MB RAM, 540MB HD, Embedded IDE&SVGA with Cirrus chipset,4xCDROM) "Got depressed, wrote a note, used a gun, Cobain..." (sung to the tune of 'Cocaine' by J.J.Cale)
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