From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 03:13:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD8516A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:13:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avout3.midco.net (avout3.midco.net [24.220.0.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDB4343D2D for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:13:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdlist@sirjorj.com) Received: (qmail 4024 invoked by uid 1009); 15 Apr 2005 03:13:38 -0000 Received: from bsdlist@sirjorj.com by avout3 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. Clear:RC:1(24.230.144.174):. Processed in 0.188606 secs); 15 Apr 2005 03:13:38 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: bsdlist@sirjorj.com via avout3 X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.22 (Clear:RC:1(24.230.144.174):. Processed in 0.188606 secs) Received: from host-174-144-230-24.midco.net (HELO darko) ([24.230.144.174]) (envelope-sender ) by avout3.midco.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Apr 2005 03:13:38 -0000 From: "Jordon Hofer" To: Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:14:53 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Subject: ASUS V9400 video card prevents FreeBSD from booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:13:39 -0000 Greetings. I recently discovered why FreeBSD quit working on my computer. When I replaced my GeForce 2 MX400 with a GeForce MX 4000-based card from ASUS (The X Series V9400 with 64 meg of RAM), FreeBSD no longer boots. For what it's worth, the contents of my computer are as follows: Dual P3-1.4 Tualatin procs in a TYAN mobo 1 gig RAM Adaptec 39160 -9 gig Cheetah (Windows 2k install) -18 gig Cheetah (NTFS) -4 gig UltraStar (i dont even remember whats on this one...) -Plextor CDRW -Zip Drive Built-in IDE controller -40 gig Maxtor (this drive is for FreeBSD) -Plextor DVDRW SB Audigy Netgear NIC Belkin USB2.0 card *** The long story is that I had FreeBSD 5.3 on the 40 gig drive from an install/update/rebuild I did a while back. My dual-boot setup is pretty unique in that I either have the 40 gig drive plugged in or I have the SCSI drives plugged in to keep the two systems isolated. I gave DragonflyBSD a try recently and found that it wouldd hang during the boot sequence. I then tried booting the BSD install I already had and found that it hung too. I tried booting the 5.3 install CD and got the same results. After lots of testing, including pulling out all hardware that wasnt essential to boot, I finally remembered that I had recently replaced video cards in favor of one with DVI support for my new LCD monitor. After I put the old video card back in, the 5.3 cd booted just fine. I just tried booting 4.11 (from a real BSDmall-purchased, honest-to-goodness, ours-goes-to-eleven cd and dvd) and got the same results. I really dont know how to proceed from here. If there is any other trick or way to get info to help the developers recognize this hardware and/or what is causing it to crash the system, I'm willing to help. *** Other interesting things I noticed: -Both win2k and bsd5.3 seem to see a firewire adapter on this video card even though there is no firewire connector on it. -I got halfway through typing out this email last week when win2k took a huge dump and the only thing saving me from a reinstall was SpinRite 6. -Yes, I did try booting 5.3 with different options from the menu: verbose mode, ACPI, etc... When in non-verbose mode, the last thing I saw was the waiting 15 sec for SCSI devices message. In verbose mode, I saw a few messages beyond that. jorj