From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 05:51:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id FAA21553 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 05:51:34 -0800 Received: from alpha.coe.ufrj.br (alpha.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA21546 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 05:51:29 -0800 Received: (from rodolfo@localhost) by alpha.coe.ufrj.br (8.6.12/8.6.10) id LAA27136 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 11:51:09 -0200 From: Rodolfo Heitor Gevaerd de Faria Message-Id: <199511211351.LAA27136@alpha.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: 2.1.0-RELEASE problems... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 11:51:08 GMT-3:00 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, I decided to try 2.1.0-Release, specially because I had to make a IDE CDROM work, and there was a serious problem.. I had installed 2.0.5 in this machine and it worked just fine (except of course for the IDE CDROM) then I saw that 2.1.0 was just released and then downloaded a boot disk (atapi.flp). When I tried that it just hangs. I thought at first it was the CDROM fault (It's one of those Creative Labs Multimedia Kit 4x CDROM). Then I downloaded the kernel sources and started to experiment some other configuration. The problem happened when the kernel started to probe the PCI devices (It's an 100Mhz Pentium, ALI chipset (is that any good?)). With the 2.0.5 it just worked fine, it could find the VGA card (a Cirrus 523x chipset), with the 2.1.0 I could only boot disabling the pci bus. Can someone give me an idea? That happened with the 2.1.0-RELEASE... It's kind of bad for things like that happen with a RELEASE version. :( Basically the only thing I have in the PCI bus is the VGA card, so I can still boot with the pci bus disabled, But that problem may arise with other people. I'm thinking it's because something has changed in the kernel that the ALI chipset doesn't support. I tried to get a Intel chipset, but it's not me who actually buys the machines :(. ( I also tried to get a SCSI CDROM, but...) I'll try do write down the messages I get when I'm using PCI...(It doesn't get logged, the system just locks..) I'll send them to the list. Thanks if anyone can help me. Rodolfo H G Faria