From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 15:49:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7337237B405 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:49:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from web20714.mail.yahoo.com (web20714.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64E8543FB1 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmw_ymail@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030305234940.70708.qmail@web20714.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.197.167.221] by web20714.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:49:40 PST Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:49:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Wilson Subject: Re: A few 5.0-Release questions... To: Chris Shenton Cc: Scott Long , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <87fzq2ufn5.fsf@Pectopah.shenton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Chris Shenton wrote: > FWIW, I had absolutely no trouble booting and > installing 5.0-R on my 600SC, with the DELL-supplied CERC > RAID card (amr device recognized it, but it drives 4x > ATA disks rather than SCSI), and an Intel gigabit > ether card. Got X11 working on it rather easily > too. I don't have any other drives (than the supplied IDE > CD) in the box. The only trouble that I've experienced was with adding a new video card, an ATI All-In-Wonder VE (Radeon 7500, PCI version). When the card is not installed, and I'm using the integrated RageXL video, all works just great. However, once a new PCI video card is installed, I get NMI errors on boot, with a system hang. I've tried a few different things to try and resolve the issue; removing 'options EISA' from the kernel, and removing 'device agp' from the kernel. I've checked the mainboard for jumpers to fully disable the integrated video; there are none. Thus far, the only way I can get FreeBSD-5.0 to boot without incident was to add, 'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' to /boot/device.hints. Once I do that, no more NMI errors. I just hope and pray this option remains with FreeBSD for a long time to come so I can continue to use this ATI AIW card. X with the integrated RageXL sucks. :p - John Wilson __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message