From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 27 19:54:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14359 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13885 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA07446; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:20:48 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA25590; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:20:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980928122032.F25391@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 12:20:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: abaycock@pontapora.com.br, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SerialPort Detection Problem References: <35FEB4AA.F749FC0F@pontapora.com.br> <360E854A.B67F2F71@pontapora.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <360E854A.B67F2F71@pontapora.com.br>; from Antony Ben Aycock on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 02:34:50PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 27 September 1998 at 14:34:50 -0400, Antony Ben Aycock wrote: > > > Antony Ben Aycock wrote: > >> Just had to change my Mainboard because of failing DMA's. Everything >> was finebefore this, >> New board TXpro-II M571-H with AMI bios 05-06-1998 >> >> On booting "sio0 not found at 0x3f8" which disables mouse use. The >> system does recognize the modem set up on the sio1 resources but fails >> to recognize the "onboard serial ports" even if you specifically assign >> them the standard resource settings in BIOS setup. Have tried various >> configs. >> >> Anyone with suggestions, fixes, or work arounds for setting up the >> mouse???? >> Thanks from the jungle. > > I got some feedback on the earlier posting (above) which directed me to > the "Lemis" workaround hack.. Well, it wasn't the "LEMIS" hack. I just hosted it. > GUESS WHAT??? I doesn't work on this board TXpro-II.. I'm > depressed. > > Suggestions appreciated. What version of FreeBSD are you using? A large number of these problems were fixed in 2.2.7. The hack just worked around them. If you have one of these boards, and you're running an older version (possibly with the hack I supplied), you should really upgrade. > Have requested info from factory tech and other sources but have had no > replies as of yet. Hopefully the new tendency towards UNIX style OS's will > cause the hardware manufacturers to investigate the quirks in their boards > before launching things which basically only run straight "Gatesdows" > applications. (This board even requires maniacal configuring to make DOS > safe mode games run correctly. DON'T BUY ONE) Mad jungle dweller. You'll be interested to know that we were, in fact, approached by the manufacturer of this particular chip (Acer) asking for cooperation in chip development. Things are looking up. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message