From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 31 23:57:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA17577 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA17570 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA03263; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:57:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199704010757.JAA03263@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: Hello again In-Reply-To: <199704010746.XAA15537@root.com> from David Greenman at "Mar 31, 97 11:46:50 pm" To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:57:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hitman.jack@djo.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to David Greenman who wrote: > >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). Erhm, do you have a pentium machine ?? Try disableing the pentium optimised bcopy and friends by giving npx a 0x7 flag setting in userconfig, if that helps you have HW thats broken in that respect... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..