From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 18 9:50: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6424914EE2 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA04866; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:50:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001181750.JAA04866@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Chris Piazza Subject: Re: i386/16164: "vga" attach fails if video card not whacked into shape Reply-To: Chris Piazza Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/16164; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Chris Piazza 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: 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 -- cpiazza@jaxon.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org Abbotsford, BC, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message