Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 17:25:35 -0700 (MST) From: Douglas Russell <russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ATI Mach64D Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960321171418.3386A-100000@fsb>
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Hello happy FreeBSD people.... Last night I put together a new Pentium 150 machine for a friend of mine with an ATI Mach64D PCI video card. When we went to install FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE on it, booting from the standard install floppy, as soon as it gets to the sio (si0? whetever it is, I don't have anything in front of me right now), the standard console driver, right after it does the CPU type determination, the video goes nuts. It switches to some wild mode that basically just comes out snow. I tried another video card (an old Trident or something, ISA) it worked fine... Has anyone had this kind of problem before, or any ideas what it might be? The motherboard is a Gigabyte, chipset Triton, pipeline cache... The card is an OEM 64D with 2 megs. We removed the only other card from the system (one of my network cards, a 3COM 3c509), and it didn't help. (Not surprisingly, but worth a shot...) I figure it must me some kind of strange incompatibility in the sio console driver. I'm thinking that if we install the system with another video card installed, then compile a new kernel using the vt2 console driver instead, it may work. On the other hand, maybe that one won't work either. Any comments/suggestions would be appreciated. Please email them to one of my addresses (preferably the primary one), as I don't regularly subscribe to the questions list. Thanks! Later...... <Doug> Primary Address : drussell@internode.net Computer Science: russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca ACS Account : dwrussel@acs.ucalgary.ca
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