From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 0:29:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roma.axis.se (roma.axis.se [193.13.178.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1F937B531 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sverrev@axis.com) Received: from oddput.axis.se (root@oddput.axis.se [10.13.9.175]) by roma.axis.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28787; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:25:48 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (sverrev@localhost) by oddput.axis.se (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id JAA07421; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:27:57 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: oddput.axis.se: sverrev owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 09:27:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Sverre Valgeirsson To: Damon Hammis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Damon Hammis wrote: > If it's a pci card then the isa part isn't needed, so device ed0 should > work fine. I had an ne2000 pci nic in my pc for a while with no problems. > As far as the IRQ conflict goes, there should be a setting in your bios to > disable the IRQ for the graphics card. It's not needed and just chews up > IRQs anyways. Also, if it was an IRQ conflict then there would be a > message saying so during boot and FreeBSD wouldn't initialize the card at > all. I have another NE2000 card in another machinei (4.0), and that works great (I'll test swapping the cards). > Have you tried booting the system without the card and seeing if that > helps? > Without the card the system boots as normal. With it, the screen only updates when the kernel has something to write to it. I get this in dmesg: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0 vga0: rev 0x00 int a irg 255 on pci0.3.0 ed1: rev 0x00 int a irg 0 on pci0.4.0 ed1: address 00:00:21:d3:c8:81, type NE2000 (16 bit) Probing for PnP devices: ...... .... /sverre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message