From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 00:46:53 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id AAA09559 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:46:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.84]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id AAA09554 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA00489; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:46:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:46:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Curt Finch cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: s3 virge hosedown In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Curt Finch wrote: > > > First video: Super-VGA > > > Chipset: S3 ViRGE (PCI Probed) > > > Memory: 2048 Kbytes > > > RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC > > > (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) > > > > That's odd. > > Could you please be more specific? 8 bit DAC for a fancy video card? > > > XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System > > > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100) > > > Release Date: Oct 24 1996 > > > Operating System: FreeBSD 2.1.5 > > > Configured drivers: > > > S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) > > > s3_ViRGE > > > > > > The above is my freebsd configuration and my XFree86 config. > > > xinit or startx crashes the machine immediatly after blackening > > > the screen. > > > > Do you have SIO2 or sio3 enabled? > > > sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0: type 16550A > sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > sio1: type 16550A > sio2: disabled, not probed. > sio3: disabled, not probed. > > i.e. no. Why would that be relevant? The upper serial ports stomp on ATI and some S3 implementations. It doesn't take lightly to FreeBSD's probe of those ports. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major