Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 04:36:10 +0300 From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su> To: Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com Cc: Jeffrey Meltzer <meltzer@icsnet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, izaac@newtonian.ml.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an HP Vectra VE Message-ID: <19971216043610.01160@demos.su> In-Reply-To: <19971215110229.18906@toth.FergInc.com>; from Branson Matheson <Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com> on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 11:02:29AM -0500 References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971215100240.8601B-100000@www> <19971215110229.18906@toth.FergInc.com>
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On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 11:02:29AM -0500, Branson Matheson wrote: # On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 10:08:20AM -0500, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote: # > I'm setting up FreeBSD for the first time, and have hit a small snag in # > setting up X. When I run the SuperProbe utility, it says there is a SiS # > 6C205 card, which I have (comes annoyingly with the motherboard on a HP # > Vectra VE). But, when i run the configure utility, that's not an option, # > only another SiS card is there. Anyone have any idea as to whether that # > one is compatable or not? # I used the standard svga driver with my VE. The one that I had used # a Cirrus Logic card. I don't think I had that card however. We have # mutiple XM's and XU's here running fbsd with out a hitch.. and I # have used it on other vectras here by netbooting. However, it won't provide 2mb card capacities, that workaround with that driver. Neither XFree, nor Xaccel drivers won't do that, - the best solution is to get some $2x svga, a la S3 or something. # # > Also, I just picked the unsupported card option, and when i tried to start # > X, it told me it couldn't find the mouse, which in setup I put in as # > /dev/mouse, which is linked to /dev/psm1. # Hmmm.. unless you have *two* psm devices ... try /dev/psm0 ;-) Easy, psm0 isn't active even if it's configured. boot -cv, activate it. This behaviour is intended one, since some of motherboards will freese if psm is activated ;-(. Guys, can't it be that psm0 is activated by default, if configured? I hardly saw 1% if all motherboards which will need this, - shouldn't it be that if config sees the board, where it is known to be a problem, it will not enable psm at startup? It's not that hard, but quite annoying to enable the mouse each time you get new kernel. # # - branson -- -mishania
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