From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 16:19:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA11369 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA11356 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:19:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA15178; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:52:50 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603050022.KAA15178@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Video Screwed with Serial Support Included To: cs95283@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca (Ryan Kereliuk) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:52:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <96Mar4.134551-0700_mst.75085-4+11@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca> from "Ryan Kereliuk" at Mar 4, 96 01:45:38 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Ryan Kereliuk stands accused of saying: > > Serial support is to blame; things work fine with when it is > disabled. I have a Pentium 75 system with a ATI Mach64 video > card. This is a FAQ 8) It's a bug in the Mach64 chipset. To work around it, you'll need to remove the last value in the definition of 'likely_com_ports' in /sys/i386/isa/sio.c and build a new kernel. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[