Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 20:06:32 MET From: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: j_orthoefer@tia.net (Joseph D. Orthoefer) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pci mach64 blanks screen. Was: User and Developer Support Message-ID: <9512061903.AA11900@atuhc16.atusks01.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.90.951206090717.11896A-100000@colossus.tia.net>; from "Joseph D. Orthoefer" at Dec 6, 95 9:24 am
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> On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Scott Turvey wrote: > > i am having a problem getting freebsd to display during=20 > > boot using an ati pci-based svga card. when it get to the video = > > portion of the boot process, the signal to my monitor disappears = > > and the monitor goes into powersave mode. a regular ati isa-based = > > card works fine. anyone seen this? > I have the same problem w/ an AST Bravo pentium-100. It has a Mach64 > ati-264ct chip integrated on the mother board. When probing for the sc0 > or pc0 device it blanks the screen and stays blank. With a syscons kernel > I can run XFree86 3.1.2's SVGA server in its 320x200 fallback mode, which > also makes the virtual terminals accessible again. There has been some > discussion of getting the mach64 X server working w/ it on > comp.windows.x.i386 and on comp.os.linux.x newsgroups. So far none of the > things they have mentioned have worked. > Joseph D. Orthoefer This is becoming a FAQ. Try disabling all of sio[0-3] and see if it runs. (disabling in config; boot with /kernel -c) Testing for sio2 or sio3 poops the card (which has control registers on same addresses.) You will have to recompile the kernel not to test for sio2 and 3, even though binary patching the kernel is also an option. /Alby
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