From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 15 17:36:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA07812 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 17:36:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from skraldespand.demos.su (skraldespand.demos.su [194.87.5.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07798 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 17:36:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mishania@skraldespand.demos.su) Received: (from mishania@localhost) by skraldespand.demos.su (8.8.8/D) id EAA19586; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 04:36:10 +0300 (MSK) Posted-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 04:36:10 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <19971216043610.01160@demos.su> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 04:36:10 +0300 From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" To: Branson.Matheson@FergInc.com Cc: Jeffrey Meltzer , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, izaac@newtonian.ml.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an HP Vectra VE References: <19971215110229.18906@toth.FergInc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19971215110229.18906@toth.FergInc.com>; from Branson Matheson on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 11:02:29AM -0500 Organization: Demos Company, Ltd., Moscow, Russian Federation. X-Point-of-View: Gravity is myth, - the earth sucks. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 11:02:29AM -0500, Branson Matheson wrote: # On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 10:08:20AM -0500, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote: # > I'm setting up FreeBSD for the first time, and have hit a small snag in # > setting up X. When I run the SuperProbe utility, it says there is a SiS # > 6C205 card, which I have (comes annoyingly with the motherboard on a HP # > Vectra VE). But, when i run the configure utility, that's not an option, # > only another SiS card is there. Anyone have any idea as to whether that # > one is compatable or not? # I used the standard svga driver with my VE. The one that I had used # a Cirrus Logic card. I don't think I had that card however. We have # mutiple XM's and XU's here running fbsd with out a hitch.. and I # have used it on other vectras here by netbooting. However, it won't provide 2mb card capacities, that workaround with that driver. Neither XFree, nor Xaccel drivers won't do that, - the best solution is to get some $2x svga, a la S3 or something. # # > Also, I just picked the unsupported card option, and when i tried to start # > X, it told me it couldn't find the mouse, which in setup I put in as # > /dev/mouse, which is linked to /dev/psm1. # Hmmm.. unless you have *two* psm devices ... try /dev/psm0 ;-) Easy, psm0 isn't active even if it's configured. boot -cv, activate it. This behaviour is intended one, since some of motherboards will freese if psm is activated ;-(. Guys, can't it be that psm0 is activated by default, if configured? I hardly saw 1% if all motherboards which will need this, - shouldn't it be that if config sees the board, where it is known to be a problem, it will not enable psm at startup? It's not that hard, but quite annoying to enable the mouse each time you get new kernel. # # - branson -- -mishania