Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 01:13:39 -0700 From: garya@dreamchaser.org To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: #$%@#$!@# PnP devices... Message-ID: <9602020813.AA13153@ montana.com >
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Aaaarrrrghhhhhh! Thoroughly frustrated... I have a Micron P-100 with: BusLogic BT946C SCSI controller Conner 10805 1.08G drive Plextor PX43-CS CD-ROM Supra 28.8 PnP modem Diamond Stealth 64 2001 2Meg EDO DRAM video ctlr PS/2 mouse MAG 17FGX monitor SMC 8432T ethernet ctlr (DEC 21041 equiv) Soundblaster I have the disk partitioned with ~400M for Win95 and ~600M for FreeBSD. Problem #1 The supra modem has *no* jumpers to set addrs or irqs. Under win95 it shows up at 0x2f8 and irq 3, but FreeBSD configured with sio1 at 0x2f8 and irq 3 doesn't see it. I also tried 0x2e8 at irq 3 and didn't get anything there. I have the two com ports on the motherboard set with A to com1 at 3f8 @ irq 4, and B disabled. com1 shows up fine on sio0. Questions: 1. Once win95 sets a PnP addr & port, are they semi-permanent, or do they disappear on a soft reboot? What about a hard reboot? 2. How the heck do I find out what the default addrs for the dang modem are? It came with *zero* doc, just a bunch of advertising bs for AOL, etc. Problem #2 The BIOS has a setting for PnP OS's and non-PnP OS's. The BIOS also has a setting for large disk addressing mode which is either DOS or other. This seems to imply that when switching from win95 to freebsd I should change both of these settings. However, when I do that, freebsd can't find the boot block or the scsi ctlr seems to hang. If I just boot into win95, then exit, and boot into freebsd without changing the settings, it *seems* to come up ok. But I don't get any real warm fuzzies about this... Is anyone running a similar system, and if so can you shed some light on this? Problem #3 What XF86Config options and server should I use? I tried the svga server and got what looked like a character-based attempt to paint graphics. So then I backed off to a simpler server and ended up with only 640x480 graphics, and after a few mouse movements the whole thing froze up. In order to get the mouse to work, I had to comment out all the code in psmprobe, as suggested by Brett Bourbin. But I'm wondering if that isn't just going around some other problem which is causing the subsequent hang. Looking and hoping for a bazillion flashes of light... Gary Aitken garya@dreamchaser.org
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