From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 22:34:09 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA09922 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:34:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.119]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA09913 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00315; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:33:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:33:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: brian@mpress.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum coolness laptop vs. -current In-Reply-To: <19961225090345.1054.qmail@mpress.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 25 Dec 1996 brian@mpress.com wrote: > I have a Chicony/Chembook 9750 w/13.3 active matrix display 1024x768 > with P5-133 and 32MB memory. > > It all works great under 2.1.6, and a 2.2-current from about > 9 months ago. > > However, it will not work under 2.2-ALPHA, or 2.2-BETA. > > It goes through all the typical boot kernel messages, by dies just > after the last one (happens to be a disabled apm0). The > screen gets bad characters written into the first 3 lines and > the system is frozen. FreeBSD doesn't like something in there. I'm guessing the video. Have you disabled all the unnecessary/uninstalled devices, including sio2 and sio3? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major