Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:50:03 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/16164: "vga" attach fails if video card not whacked into shape Message-ID: <200001181750.JAA04866@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/16164; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net>
To: green@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/16164: "vga" attach fails if video card not whacked into shape
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:44:10 -0800
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 03:41:08PM -0500, green@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
>
> >Number: 16164
> >Category: i386
> >Synopsis: "vga"/"sc" don't work when a video card is not whacked into shape
>
> It happens with -current as of any time, my AMI BIOS from a few
> months ago (latest), and latest working BIOS (1.20) for my SIIG66 HPT366
> controller.
hmm.. I have an HPT366 (built into my bp6 motherboard) and it's BIOS
revision is 1.21.
>
> >Description:
>
> The HPT366's BIOS makes a highly lame video mode change and things
> are very screwy; the BIOS doesn't reset the video card after that, though
> I don't know if it _should_, and FreeBSD has a cow with it. The "vga"
> and "sc" devices don't work, VESA fails, and the system isn't usable from the
> console.
My HPT366 BIOS does the same mode change, but it must switch it back
because I'm not having any problems whatsoever with it:
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0309000.
VESA: v3.0, 4096k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc02b54c2 (1000022)
VESA: NVidia
vga-pci0: <NVidia Riva TNT graphics accelerator> mem 0xe6000000-0xe6ffffff,0xe40
00000-0xe4ffffff irq 9 at device 0.0 on pci1
[with no error message].
> I suppose you have to have the same hardware, or hardware which
> also causes this problem.
My hardware seems similar to yours except for maybe the motherboard and
BIOS revision.
-Chris
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