From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 17:39:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA19336 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA19331 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA25831; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:39:29 -0400 Received: (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA12697; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:41:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Jamil Weatherbee cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD (fwd) 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, 28 Jun 1996, Jamil Weatherbee wrote: > Dear Reader... "Reader" in this instance is a mailing list which resends your message to very many people. Walnut Creek CDROM does provide support for FreeBSD (or, so I'm lead to believe, at least); rather, technical support is provided by volunteers reading the newsgroups, or the freebsd-questions mailing list (questions@freebsd.org). > I bought FreeBSD from your site (www.cdrom.com) & I tryed to install it > after I hade linux for about 1 year I wanted to see FreeBSD any way... Our site is really www.freebsd.org. www.cdrom.com is Walnut Creek's site. I think www.freebsd.org is provided c/o Walnut Creek, but they are two different groups. > The problem is when the kernel (at boot time!) starts to look for > hardware the screen gose blank!! simply BLANK!. & that's it I can't do > anything, I tryed to go deep & see what is the problem, ok, I hade an > old ISA Trident SVGA, I installed it & every thing went gr8!. Sounds like the problem with ATI Mach 64 cards described in the FAQ. > hmm .. I tryed almost everything (Even removing ALL the cards EXCEPT > the Graphic card & again nothing, the card is (very strangly) ATI > Graphics Xpression 2DRAM, I even tryed it with my friends computer that > hade an ATI 2VRAM nothing .. .it worked gr8! Ahh, yes! It is the ATI Mach 64 com 3 conflict! The FAQ has the following to say: _________________________________________________________________ 7.11. When I boot FreeBSD with my ATI Mach 64 videocard the following happens: when the system probes the hardware during boot the screen goes black and synchronization is lost and I'm not even using X! What's the problem?! The problem is that the ATI Mach 64 uses address 2e8, and the fourth serial port does too. Due to a bug (feature?) in the sio.c driver it will touch this port even if you don't have the fourth serial port, and even if you disable sio3 (the fourth port) which normally uses this address. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 7.12. What's the solution or workaround for this problem? Until the bug has been fixed, you can use this workaround: 1. Enter -c at the bootprompt. [ the kernel goes into configuration mode ] 2. Disable sio0, sio1, sio2 and sio3 (all of them). This way the sio driver doesn't get activated -> no problems. 3. Type exit to continue booting. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 7.13. The workaround works fine, but now I want to use my serial ports. You'll have to build a new kernel with the following modification: in /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/sio.c find the one occurrence of the string 0x2e8 and remove that string and the preceding comma (keep the trailing comma). Now follow the normal procedure of building a new kernel. _________________________________________________________________ > any way, I relly want to run the FreeBSD, couse I'm sick of linux, it's > ok but it's full of securety holes & bugs!, but it's not bad AT ALL!, > any way please help me out!. if you wold like me to send you any other > info about my hardware please tell me. I realize you're in Israel, but I would like to make a couple of requests... point #1. I (and probably most other people, too) try to limit the amount of time I spend reading one message. When that message is less-well written, I am more tempted to skip over it to save time (poorly written messages take exponentially longer to read). request #1. Always try to insert a newline every 60, 70, or so columns. When people finally realize that html is the best format to send mail in, this will no longer be necessary, but until then... request #2. Some spelling mistakes are unavoidable. Ty;0s happen, memory fails, etc.. However, had you used `had', `goes', and `really' instead of `hade', `gose', and `relly', I would have been able to read you message much more easily. Little things such as `securety' don't really matter (I even let some people get away with `color' ;), but it took me a couple seconds to realize that you weren't talking about hell, geese, or bikes because of the mentioned three. request #3. The following is not a sentence: > any way, I relly want to run the FreeBSD, couse I'm sick of linux, it's > ok but it's full of securety holes & bugs!, but it's not bad AT ALL!, > any way please help me out!. It's not a sentence...it's at least two sentences, and should be three or more sentences! I'm tempted to rewrite it for you, but that'd probably be a little rude... :) Anyways, I'm honestly not trying to pick apart your question. The three things are just things that would honestly enable me to read your message quickly and clearly (in addition to telling me that you are interested enough in getting an answer to put the effort into writing a good question). It's quite possible that I'm totally alone in that, but I wouldn't gamble too much on it. ;) I hope the quoted sections of the FAQ answer your question. The FAQ, IMHO, is getting a little clunky in the section listing the questions is very hard to read...sorta fat and overgrown... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk