From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 14:02:34 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA29055 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 14:02:34 -0700 Received: from gateway.us.sidwell.edu (gateway.us.sidwell.edu [198.3.254.33]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28781 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:59:14 -0700 Received: (from lcozzens@localhost) by gateway.us.sidwell.edu (8.6.10/8.6.10) id QAA18589; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:59:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:59:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Lisa Cozzens To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with Cirrus card Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to help a colleague set up FreeBSD on a Pentium-90 with 50 megs of RAM. We're having problems getting the Cirrus video card to work properly. When FreeBSD boots with the card in, the boot prompt (whereyou can specify which kernel/hard drive to boot from) comes up fine, but then weird things start happening. It seems like every second or third character is replaced by a space, so screens look something like this: f a d s c e h a etc., etc. When we put in a different card (we've tried a Trident 8900 and a "Windows Accelerator" card, model #1580HC, both with 1MB of memory), everything works fine. We tried booting with the -c flag, and we got into the config program just fine. Then, when we typed ?, the text was illegible (like the text above) but the config> prompt was perfectly legible, as was anything we typed at it. Because the text was illegible, we couldn't get any information from that program. The Cirrus card is labeled CL-GD5426-80QC-A and the manual says that it's a VL Bus card based on the Cirrus Logic GD5426 graphic VGA chip (thus the labeling :). The card is using IRQ 9; nothing in the startup messages mentions any conflict with that IRQ. The card has 1 MB of memory. I checked the handbook, the faq, and systems.faq but I couldn't find any mention of Cirrus cards. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place(s)? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Lisa Cozzens ____ Lisa Cozzens (lcozzens@sidwell.edu) (o | WWW Home Page: http://www.sidwell.edu/~lcozzens/ \ "We are what we consistently do; excellence, therefore, ========= is not an act but a habit." --Aristotle