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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:18:48 -0600
From: Marc Novakowski <novakow@ee.ualberta.ca>
Organization: University of Alberta
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I am having problems running FreeBSD on a Pentium Pro 180.  The
motherboard
is an ASUS P/I-P6NP5 PCI.  The problem is, once I boot into FreeBSD, I
can't
see the cursor on the screen.  Also when I type, the text does not
appear
until I switch to another virtual console and then back again!

Other "weird" things happening:
- I can't seem to "reboot" or "shutdown" the machine.. the KILL signal
is
  sent, but the disks aren't synced (SCSI disk)
- when I booted up before, the internal speaker would emit a high
pitched
  tone.. I disconnected it to solve this problem
- when I try to mount an MSDOS floppy, the computer just hangs

This sounds pretty weird to me, and the folks on #freebsd on IRC
couldn't
help me out.  I would try to use the vt0 device rather than the sc0
device
but it is not supplied in the "generic" kernel, and it is very hard to
edit
the kernel config files in vi without a cursor!

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated..

System Info:
Motherboard:	ASUS P/I-P6NP5 with PPro 180 chip
RAM:		64 Meg EDO, 60 ns (2 x 32Meg SIMMs)
SCSI adapter:	ASUS PCI-SC200 Fast SCSI
Ethernet card:	SMC EtherPower (SMC8432T)
CDROM:		NEC 2x SCSI
Tape:		Colorado T1000
Video:		ATI GSSC (mono)
Monitor:	AST Monochrome

Note: I have tried it also with a 1meg PCI ATI Mach64 & SVGA monitor and
it
still does the same thing.


Thank you!

---
Marc Novakowski
novakow@ee.ualberta.ca