From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 7 13:01:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E85C6CA; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283268FC0C; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qB7D11gG099204; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:01:01 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id qB7D111P099202; Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:01:01 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201212071301.qB7D111P099202@svn.freebsd.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:01:01 +0000 (UTC) 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 X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:01:01 -0000 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 - - Why does the screen go black and lose sync when I - boot? - - - - This is a known problem with the ATI Mach64 video - card. The problem is that this card uses address - 2e8, 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 even if you disable - sio3 (the fourth port) which - normally uses this address. - - Until the bug has been fixed, you can use this - workaround: - - - - Enter at the boot prompt. - (This will put the kernel into configuration - mode). - - - - Disable sio0, - sio1, - sio2 and - sio3 (all of them). This way - the &man.sio.4; driver does not get activated — no - problems. - - - - Type exit to continue booting. - - - - If you want to be able to use your serial ports, you - will have to build a new kernel with the following - modification: in - /usr/src/sys/dev/sio/sio.c (or in - /usr/src/sys/pc98/cbus/sio.c for pc98) - find the one occurrence of the string - 0x2e8 and remove that string and the - preceding comma (keep the trailing comma). Now follow the - normal procedure of building a new kernel. - - - - My system has more than 1 GB of RAM, and I'm getting panics with kmem_map too small