Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:59:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Lisa Cozzens <lcozzens@gateway.us.sidwell.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Problems with Cirrus card Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950814163546.18145D-100000@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>
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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
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