From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 31 23:45:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17110 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA17105 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:45:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.8.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id XAA15537; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:46:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199704010746.XAA15537@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: hitman.jack@djo.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello again In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 22:46:36 EST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:46:50 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Hello again, sorry to bother you, i sent mail a few days ago with >problems with the display, if you remember. Well now i have tried 3 > different video cards made by different companies and none of them >work. Well, kind of. My old one doesnt work at all, the display gets >screwed up, one of the new ones display gets messed up too, although it >is a different kind of mess up, with colored blocks that flash, probably >the same problem as before. And the last one, well, i thought it >worked, because i booted a 2.1.7 kernel with 3.0 on disk and it worked >fine, then later when some stuff happened and i was going to install 3.0 >all over again with the 3.0 kernel and it froze up when it went into the >setup, no graphics weirdness, it just froze. Sorry to keep bothering >you peoople with my little troubles, i'll find someone else to pester >sometime soon now. I would appreciate help though. thanks. You may wish to check the ISA bus speed in the motherboard BIOS configuration. It sounds like it might be set too fast (>8.5MHz). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project