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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:51:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Douglas Russell <russelld@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ATI Mach64D
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960321213241.624A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960321171418.3386A-100000@fsb>

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On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Douglas Russell wrote:

> 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...  

You need to disable the sio probe.  See the FAQ.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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