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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:46:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Curt Finch <curt@tkg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: s3 virge hosedown
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961219004536.258Y-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.961213074802.42722A-100000@spycam.tkg.com>

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On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Curt Finch wrote:

> > > First video: Super-VGA
> > >         Chipset: S3 ViRGE (PCI Probed)
> > >         Memory:  2048 Kbytes
> > >         RAMDAC:  Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC
> > >                  (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
> > 
> > That's odd.
> 
> Could you please be more specific?

8 bit DAC for a fancy video card?  

> > > XFree86 Version 3.2 / X Window System
> > > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6100)
> > > Release Date: Oct 24 1996
> > > Operating System: FreeBSD 2.1.5 
> > > Configured drivers:
> > >   S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
> > >       s3_ViRGE
> > > 
> > > The above is my freebsd configuration and my XFree86 config.
> > > xinit or startx crashes the machine immediatly after blackening 
> > > the screen.
> > 
> > Do you have SIO2 or sio3 enabled?
> 
> 
> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
> sio1: type 16550A
> sio2: disabled, not probed.
> sio3: disabled, not probed.
> 
> i.e. no.  Why would that be relevant?

The upper serial ports stomp on ATI and some S3 implementations.  It
doesn't take lightly to FreeBSD's probe of those ports.  

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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