From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 1 7:23:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.imagination.co.uk (mailgate.imagination.co.uk [212.140.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB9337B403 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 07:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aledm@qix.co.uk) Received: from qix.co.uk (dhcp-76-157.imagination.co.uk [192.168.76.157]) by mailgate.imagination.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02157; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:23:48 GMT Message-ID: <3B68114E.FBBC0F13@qix.co.uk> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:25:18 +0100 From: Aled Morris X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: oldcpgmr@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and windows 98 don't play well together Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I was wondering whether someone could shed some light on this for me: I've installed >FreeBSD 4.3, Debian Linux 2.2r2 and windows 98 on my laptop. Everything is fine except >that after using FreeBSD if I try to go into windows, the system locks up. If I turn >the power off and back on after attempting to boot windows once, it works fine. I have the same kind of problem with my Toshiba Portege 3440CT laptop. After using FreeBSD and XFree86, if I reboot into Windows without turning the power off completely (i.e. if I type "reboot") Windows 98 gets very confused about the state of the video card, and comes up in 640x480 mode. Only a cold boot fixes it. It seems that there is more to a "reboot" than simply reloading the software, there must some procedure for resetting the hardware to its power-on state that FreeBSD isn't implementing. Aled -- ++ Amazingly cheap server hosting in Telehouse, London ++ ++ http://www.qix.co.uk/colo/ ++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message