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Date:      Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:01:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r40298 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Message-ID:  <201212071301.qB7D111P099202@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: eadler
Date: Fri Dec  7 13:01:00 2012
New Revision: 40298
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40298

Log:
  Remove obsolete question relating to the ATI Mach64 video card last
  released in 1994.
  
  Noted by:	Joe Barbish
  Approved by:	bcr (mentor)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Fri Dec  7 13:00:58 2012	(r40297)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml	Fri Dec  7 13:01:00 2012	(r40298)
@@ -2712,58 +2712,6 @@ quit</programlisting>
       </qandaentry>
 
       <qandaentry>
-	<question id="screen-loses-sync">
-	  <para>Why does the screen go black and lose sync when I
-	    boot?</para>
-	</question>
-
-	<answer>
-	  <para>This is a known problem with the ATI&nbsp;Mach64 video
-	    card.  The problem is that this card uses address
-	    <literal>2e8</literal>, and the fourth serial port does too.
-	    Due to a bug (feature?) in the &man.sio.4; driver it will
-	    touch this port even if you do not have the fourth serial
-	    port, and <emphasis>even</emphasis> if you disable
-	    <devicename>sio3</devicename> (the fourth port) which
-	    normally uses this address.</para>
-
-	  <para>Until the bug has been fixed, you can use this
-	    workaround:</para>
-
-	  <orderedlist>
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Enter <option>-c</option> at the boot prompt.
-		(This will put the kernel into configuration
-		mode).</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Disable <devicename>sio0</devicename>,
-		<devicename>sio1</devicename>,
-		<devicename>sio2</devicename> and
-		<devicename>sio3</devicename> (all of them).  This way
-		the &man.sio.4; driver does not get activated &mdash; no
-		problems.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-
-	    <listitem>
-	      <para>Type exit to continue booting.</para>
-	    </listitem>
-	  </orderedlist>
-
-	  <para>If you want to be able to use your serial ports, you
-	    will have to build a new kernel with the following
-	    modification: in
-	    <filename>/usr/src/sys/dev/sio/sio.c</filename> (or in
-	    <filename>/usr/src/sys/pc98/cbus/sio.c</filename> for pc98)
-	    find the one occurrence of the string
-	    <literal>0x2e8</literal> and remove that string and the
-	    preceding comma (keep the trailing comma).  Now follow the
-	    normal procedure of building a new kernel.</para>
-	</answer>
-      </qandaentry>
-
-      <qandaentry>
 	<question id="kmem-map-too-small">
 	  <para>My system has more than 1&nbsp;GB of RAM, and I'm
 	    getting panics with <errorname>kmem_map too small</errorname>



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