From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 22 11:23:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09485 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:23:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from aleph.lpi.ac.ru (aleph.lpi.ac.ru [147.45.17.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09040 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 11:17:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from td.lpi.ac.ru by aleph.lpi.ac.ru with ESMTP id VAA05243; (8.6.12/D) Thu, 22 Feb 1996 21:29:57 +0300 Received: by td.lpi.ac.ru id WAA17349; (8.6.11/D) Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:03:38 +0300 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics. Lebedev Physical Institute. From: "Maksim Stolyarov" Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 22:03:37 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] Subject: Video conflicts with WHAT? Help! Lines: 66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Dear Experts! Recently I faced with very curious situation and really need your help. Well, (main components of) the computer: - CPU: Pentium-S, 100 - MB: ASUS P/I - P55TP4XEG (PCI, ISA & MediaBus, P5 up to 150 Mhz, On Board PCI Bus Master IDE, Super :-) Multi-I/O; - Video: ASUS PCI - AV264CT (ATI Mach64 based + SoundBlaster), - NO other PCI or ISA cards. THE PROBLEM: - I was able to install FreeBSD 2.1R to that computer only with ALL SIO[0-3] DISABLED! The installation passed OK with this but the computer is *really standalone* :) No mouse, no modem :( - The computer boots normally only if sio-probings are switched off. I mean under "normally" that I get visible "login:". - If I enable any of sio? (it does not matter what is ? - 0, 1, 2 or 3; their BIOS allows to get what you whant) at very early stage of probings (I suspect at "sio") screen blanks. But what happens further does depend on sio-number. For some of them booting process continues (with blank screen) and finishes OK. I.e. I can login (blindly) and reboot (what else with blank screen?!). Works. For other values the machine hangs :( and I have to use Reset. THE QUESTION: - What is a reason for such behavior? And how to make this computer to work with both serials and video in a standard way. I installed FreeBSD to many boxes previously without any difficulties. MAYBE USEFUL INFO (from their VideoAudio-Doc): - Video Memory Address A000 - BFFF - Video BIOS Address C000 - C7FF - Video Port Address 102, 1CE, 1CF, 2E8, 2EC, 2ED, 2EE, 2EF, 3B4, 3D4, 3B5, 3D5, 3B8, 3D8, 3B9, 3D9, 3BA, 3DA, 3BB, 3DB, 3C0, 3C1, 3C2, 3C3, 3C4, 3C5, 3C6, 3C7, 3C8, 3C9, 3CA, 3CC, 3CE, 3CF, 3DC, all aliases (in what sense? M.S.), 46E8 - Video interrupt PCI system auto-configurable (I do not understand). - I/O Address occupied bye the Audio Card 200h - 207h Game Port 220h - 233h Audio Interface 330h - 331h MPU-401 UART MIDI Interface 388h - 38Bh FM Music Synthezier - IRQ Line Settings Audio 5 Mitsumi 11 I can see (from above) evident possible address conflict between video and "com4". But nothing obvious that could explain the described behavior of the system. Thank you in advance, best regards, Maksim. P.S. If possible send your ideas to mns@lpi.ac.ru please.