Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:28:05 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SuperProbe?? Message-ID: <v03130302b5f2545e15cb@[209.150.34.230]> In-Reply-To: <20000904232855.A16839@comp04.prc.uic.edu> References: <v03130301b5d89b1e09c3@[209.150.34.141]>; from media@ct1.nai.net on Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:22:39AM -0400 <v03130301b5d89b1e09c3@[209.150.34.141]>
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I have FreeBSD installed on an 133 Pentium (Compaq Deskpro 4000) with both
built-in (factory) video and a Jaton Video-107PCI card installed.
This is not merely an Xfree86 issue. I am having display problems from the
command-line shell. For example, the screen saver does not work. After
the specified time of inactivity, it clicks, the monitor reports a signal
error, it clicks again, and the screen goes black.
When I run SuperProbe it says:
First Video Super-VGA
Chipset: Trident GUI 9420 Port Probed
Memory: 256 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Trident Built-In
15/16/24-bit DAC
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
This has me a bit confused. This computer, upon start-up, has only
starting announcing that it has a "Trident 3D Display" since I added the
Jaton card, and Windows has previously labeled the built-in (factory) video
as Cirrus (8514?? I don't have Windows running in front of me). So this
would lead me to believe to believe that the above is a description of the
Jaton card. However, the Jaton card is 8M not 256K.
I've tried setting SuperProbe to -no_bios, but it didn't make any
difference. Any ideas??
On a related note, where can I go for information on how to edit the CMOS
in order to completely disable hardware I'm not using?? Is there BIOS
editing software for either MS-DOS or FreeBSD?? I've tried several key
combinations upon start-up, but nothing I tried has worked.
THANX!!
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