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 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 — 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 GB of RAM, and I'm getting panics with <errorname>kmem_map too small</errorname>
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