Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Schwartz <mykes@sportsextra.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: about that strange isntallation problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970816125452.7455A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01BCAA37.0FA18CA0.mykes@sportsextra.com>
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Mike Schwartz wrote: > Yesterday I wrote this list about a problem I was having installing > FreeBSD on two different machines (P2 and P150). Well, turns out > I found the problem and resolved it. I e-mail this list in case > someone else runs into the problem and can use the help. > > Turns out both machines had identical monochrome cards that needed to > be jumpered differently for FreeBSD to work. These cards cost about > $15 each and were made in Taiwan (you get the picture :-) They have > a feature that I've never seen before called "color emulation" which > was enabled. Also, I disabled the parallel port on the card. I'm > not sure which of the two jumper changes I made fixed the problem - > I was just happy to see the systems running FreeBSD :-) :) Thanks for the update. Cheap monochrome cards, betware! > Also a note... I originally had Diamond SCSI cards in the machines, > but FreeBSD only recognized them with the 3.0-SNAP version of the boot > disk. The diamond cards have the symbios (NCR) chipset. I replaced the > diamond cards with more generic symbios cards that looked almost identical > from a brief visual inspection, and those work. The Diamond card has a different PCI vendor/model numbers and the 2.2.2 NCR driver didn't know about them yet. The changes are in the system and should be in the next release. > This is a small error in the data sheet for supported hardware for > FreeBSD 2.2.2 and under... It's not as accurate as it should. The list is growing pretty quickly and it's hard to keep up sometimes. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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