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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:33:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        brian@mpress.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maximum coolness laptop vs. -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961225223319.281E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19961225090345.1054.qmail@mpress.com>

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On Wed, 25 Dec 1996 brian@mpress.com wrote:

> I have a Chicony/Chembook 9750 w/13.3 active matrix display 1024x768
> with P5-133 and 32MB memory.
> 
> It all works great under 2.1.6, and a 2.2-current from about
> 9 months ago.
> 
> However, it will not work under 2.2-ALPHA, or 2.2-BETA.
> 
> It goes through all the typical boot kernel messages, by dies just
> after the last one (happens to be a disabled apm0).  The
> screen gets bad characters written into the first 3 lines and
> the system is frozen.

FreeBSD doesn't like something in there.  I'm guessing the video.

Have you disabled all the unnecessary/uninstalled devices, including sio2
and sio3?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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