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To: akensaj@cs.purdue.edu
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Subject: Re: Video Card 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jul 1997 00:37:18 CDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 04:01:22 -0700
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>Speedstar 64 ISA video card in it.  During the install process (for the
>walnut creek CD - using either the install program or the boot floppy)
>just after it says "booting kernel" the screen scrambles (the text is
>very distorted).  When I tried installing with a different (VGA) video
>card in it worked fine.  Is there any way to install FreeBSD with my
>current video card?  My computer "specs" are below - if they are useful.
>        Intel Pentium 133 processor

   This sounds like the Pentium bcopy optimization is biting you. The
optimization now defaults to off in FreeBSD > 2.2.1, so if you could
either set the flags on device npx0 to "1" or install 2.2.2, the problem
should go away.
   BTW, "hardware" was the wrong list for this type of question.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project