Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 11:42:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K7V problem? <- Make sure DIMM is in slot 1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010161129350.31153-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <14ae9414a3bd.14a3bd14ae94@marquette.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote: : :> Yes, the boot floppies hang as well, though not hard like the CD. :> I don't :> have a spare floppy laying around, but I may try faking it by :> telling the :> bios I have one installed, forcing it to a:, and turning boot :> cdrom back :> on in the scsi controller (adaptec 2940 uw, sets the cdrom to a: when :> bootable disk is in the drive). :Interesting, I've been able to do it off a 2940UW with a Plextor :Ultraplex as the boot drive, booting right off the cd to setup. I used this very same scsi controller (bios v1.34.3) on my old FIC PA-2007 mobo to boot and install FreeBSD from CDROM on my UtraPlex as well. This motherboard appears to be slightly odd anyway. My Pure3d2 works fine with the 3dfx reference voodoo2 driver, but the Canopus driver hangs when it tries to initialize the TV-out on the card in NT or 98. I'm really starting to wonder what the hell Asus did for QA on the design. :This just got me to thinking... Do you have any external devices? If :so, disconnect those and try loading. Also what type of termination are :you using on your chains? Termination on both ends is on the device. On the wide interface I have an IBM 4.3G UW SCSI drive, with on board termination. On the narrow interface I have an UltraPlex, an UltraPlex 40max, a PlexWriter 8/20, a Seagate 4G USCSI HDD, and a 4mm DDS-2 tape drive. Termination is via the UltraPlex, which is end of chain, using on board termination. No external devices. :Also I would try fooling around a little in the bios of your adaptec :card, or perhaps flashing it to the latest ROM version. Unless Adaptec has a recent update, 1.34.3 was the latest last time I checked. :> Even if I manage to get freebsd on this machine, and my hopes are :> dimming,I'm still not sure I'll be able to run X. Anyone know if :> X supports the :> GeForce2 GTS for just 2d accelleration? I'm not about to run :> linux for a :> video card. I started life on the command line, and while it's :> not the :> preferred method, I can go back. :Someone on here posted that XFree86 4 supported a Hercules Prophet GTS :which is a Geforce 2. Since they both have the same nVidia chipset at :heart, you should be able to. Good. I'm not concerned with 3d accelleration, but I would like to have X run at 1280x1024x32. :Hope that helps or tricking it with the floppy drive does... I'm still curious about its inability to boot from LS-120. The readme in the floppies directory indicates that booting from LS-120 shouldn't be an issue. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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