Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 21:14:39 -0800 From: rsoles@SIRIUS.COM (Roger L Soles) To: fod@netcom.com (Frank O'Donnell), questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: fod@netcom.com Subject: Re: Serial ports, kermit, XF86Config Message-ID: <9502050508.AA18039@SIRIUS.COM>
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Here goes... At 06:26 PM 2/4/95 -0800, Frank O'Donnell wrote: >First, I wanted to thank those who have given me help at >various stages of installing FreeBSD 2.0 from CD-ROM. I've >actually got the full install done and have been able to get >X going. > >The current issues of the day for me: > >1) My 486DX66 has a no-name multifunction video/disk >controller/serial-parallel port card with two 16450 UART >serial ports. I also have a Hayes Accura 144 internal modem >with a 16550 UART. Before installing FreeBSD, I had the two >16450 serial ports left at their defaults of what MS-DOS >sees as COM1 and COM2 (the Microsoft serial mouse being on >COM2), and had the Hayes internal modem card set to COM3. >Both COM1 (unused) and COM3 used the same hardware >interrupt, but none of my DOS/Windows programs seemed to >care and they were able to work with the modem card ok. >When FreeBSD boots, however, it sees a 16450 on sio0 and >sio1, but doesn't see the 16550. Do I gather correctly that >it is more strict on objecting to the interrupt conflict? >To complicate matters, neither the multifunction card nor >the Hayes card let you reset the IRQ or port address. The >only way I can see to resolve this, besides taking one of >the cards out, is to disable COM1 on the multifunction card. >However, for whatever reason this doesn't seem to be working >when I reset the jumpers per the card's documentation (even >if I take the Hayes card out and set the other card's >jumpers to disable COM1, the BIOS reports the two 16450's at >COM1 and COM2). Do I gather correctly that I'll have to >resolve this -- maybe returning this card to the vendor -- >before I can use FreeBSD to talk to the internal modem? > You can edit a CONFIG file and delete the SIO0 -- it will then not be probed and should find the SIO2 (COM3). But, you'd be better off to get a different IO card or Modem. The SIO drivers depend on interrupts... Generally I put my Mouse on COM2, and Modem on COM1 -- you might give that a try. Your IO card could be picky about having COM1 disabled with COM2 enabled... >2) I'm not sure what I need to do to run kermit. I looked >around the system for it; I found a directory under /ports >on the cdrom, but it didn't seem to have a package like the >others (I saw a makefile but when I tried to execute make it >said it couldn't find a .gz file). Do I need to ftp this >package from a site on the net, or am I overlooking it >somewhere? > You can certainly FTP kermit for a number of sites... you'll need something like it for a comm program or a dialer for ppp. I ftp'd it from columbia and transfered it via a MS-DOS floppy ( mkdir /a: ; mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /a: -- those two command makes the A: drive availible as /a: ) >3) I got through most of XF86Config ok, but there are a few >things left hanging. The manual for my monitor (a 14" Arcus >CM-1448, which I gather is not a major name brand) offered >handwidth, horizontal sync and vertical refresh, but I'm >stuck on some of the values in XF86Config under Mode >(specifically, dot clock, horiz timing and vertical timing), >and the man page didn't seem to illuminate this. Should I >be plugging something apart from the defaults in here? The >monitor generally looks ok to me -- it's at a fairly low >resolution (320 x something or 640 x something maybe), but >this works out okay because since the monitor's small I >don't really want tiny type. The only problem I've run into >that I don't know how to fix is that when the windows pop up >after I execute startx, they extend off the bottom of the >screen and I'm having a hard time resizing them so I can >read all the commands I type. > If you're just going to use 640x480 (standard VGA resolution) leave the monitor definitions at the defaults for the GENERIC monitor... >Thanks once again for any comment on any of the above, > >Frank >fod@netcom.com > > > //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Roger L Soles // PO Box 280785 // San Francisco, CA 94124-0785
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