Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:18:48 -0600 From: Marc Novakowski <novakow@ee.ualberta.ca> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with Pentium Pro display Message-ID: <31FADC18.4839@ee.ualberta.ca>
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I am having problems running FreeBSD on a Pentium Pro 180. The motherboard is an ASUS P/I-P6NP5 PCI. The problem is, once I boot into FreeBSD, I can't see the cursor on the screen. Also when I type, the text does not appear until I switch to another virtual console and then back again! Other "weird" things happening: - I can't seem to "reboot" or "shutdown" the machine.. the KILL signal is sent, but the disks aren't synced (SCSI disk) - when I booted up before, the internal speaker would emit a high pitched tone.. I disconnected it to solve this problem - when I try to mount an MSDOS floppy, the computer just hangs This sounds pretty weird to me, and the folks on #freebsd on IRC couldn't help me out. I would try to use the vt0 device rather than the sc0 device but it is not supplied in the "generic" kernel, and it is very hard to edit the kernel config files in vi without a cursor! Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.. System Info: Motherboard: ASUS P/I-P6NP5 with PPro 180 chip RAM: 64 Meg EDO, 60 ns (2 x 32Meg SIMMs) SCSI adapter: ASUS PCI-SC200 Fast SCSI Ethernet card: SMC EtherPower (SMC8432T) CDROM: NEC 2x SCSI Tape: Colorado T1000 Video: ATI GSSC (mono) Monitor: AST Monochrome Note: I have tried it also with a 1meg PCI ATI Mach64 & SVGA monitor and it still does the same thing. Thank you! --- Marc Novakowski novakow@ee.ualberta.ca
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