Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 12:14:21 +0000 From: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <fisco.dev@sul.com.br> To: FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: sig-11 plague Message-ID: <32D38F9D.41C67EA6@sul.com.br>
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I have surfed the net looking for info and tried other possibilities
to try to resolve my problem. And, to avoid looking lyke I was crying to
you my bad luck, i did not told you all the problems, because I was
thinking that was not the cause: I buyed a S3 Trio64 video card, and I
also have a Trident 9440 that cames with the computer. The Trident only
works with X32, but is too slower than the S3, so I was only using the
S3, but the problem was that all time I was wanting to run X, I first
runned SuperProbe, to see how much memory it tells me the video card
has; if SuperProbe says I have 4096Kb or it says I have 2048Kb, I
know that X will not run properly, but if it says I have 1024Kb, then I
can do a:
startx -- -bpp 16
else I do a:
xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16
Thinking the problem was with de video card (it is also unusable
under w95, most times), i went to the computer store where i buyed the
computer, and changed the old card by a new one. At night, back to home,
I put the video card on the computer, started FreeBSD and run
SuperProbe, it told me 1024Kb, *very good*. Then i powered down the
computer and installed my NEC ide-cdrom, that was on the 386 -- oh,
i did not say? the cdrom was not working whith the 5x86, but works very
well with the 386. Powered up again the system, i did a:
cat /cdrom/dists/bin.?? | tar zxvf - -C /usr/test
and i got no erros. I then, in the BIOS setup reenabled the external
cache and restarted FreeBSD, repeated the command and I did get no
errors, oh! its amazing, all things are working, im happy, -- then i
started X and it was running good, then I untarred another file and I
get a error from gzip (oh no)
repeated the command and get no errors; ok, i think it is the bios
cache, disabled it and restarted FreeBSD, but now, SuperProbe all the
time says me the video card has 4096Kb of memory (I told X in
XF86Config, but this does not help).
The Trident video card does not fail, at least int the few times i
experienced it, so, i will again to the computer store and i will
negotiate whith them another kind (supported by X) of video card,
because i am thinking it is the problem.
Ok, after all, i yet have my 386 with an amazing 670Kb custom kernel
and a low resource configuration system that is very confiable/stable
to play.
Thanks in advance for any help/comment.
Paulo.
And here is some info:
-------------
Main Board Info:
DX-9500
Universal PCI, VESA, ISA
5x86/486 System Board
-------------
BIOS Info:
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| AMIBIOS Configuration (C) 1985-1994, American Megatrends Inc, |
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Main Processor : Amd 5x86 | Base Memory Size : 640KB |
| Numeric Processor : Built-In | Ext. Memory Size : 15360KB |
| Floppy Drive A: : 1.44 MB 3 1/2" | Display Type : VGA/EGA |
| Floppy Drive B: : None | Serial Port(s) : 3F8,2F8 |
| AMIBIOS Date : 10/10/94 | Parallel Port(s) : 378 |
+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Hard Disk(s) Cyl Hd Sec Size LBA 32Bit Block PIO |
| Mode Mode Mode Mode |
| Primary Master: C: 3244 16 63 1597MB On Off Off 4 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
133 MHz CPU Clock
-------------
# dmesg
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 16 10:47:14 1995
jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x4f4
real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
avail memory = 14733312 (14388K bytes)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0: disabled, not probed.
ed1: disabled, not probed.
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
sio2: disabled, not probed.
sio3: disabled, not probed.
lpt0: disabled, not probed.
lpt1: disabled, not probed.
lpt2: disabled, not probed.
mse0: disabled, not probed.
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 765
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 71670 AP>
wd0: 1596MB (3269952 sectors), 3244 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1: disabled, not probed.
bt0: disabled, not probed.
uha0: disabled, not probed.
ahc1: disabled, not probed.
ahb0: disabled, not probed.
aha0: disabled, not probed.
aic0: disabled, not probed.
nca0: disabled, not probed.
nca1: disabled, not probed.
sea0: disabled, not probed.
wt0: disabled, not probed.
mcd0: disabled, not probed.
mcd1: disabled, not probed.
matcdc0: disabled, not probed.
scd0: disabled, not probed.
ie0: disabled, not probed.
ep0: disabled, not probed.
ix0: disabled, not probed.
le0: disabled, not probed.
lnc0: disabled, not probed.
lnc1: disabled, not probed.
ze0: disabled, not probed.
zp0: disabled, not probed.
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a irq 12 on pci0:14
pci0:16: UMC, device=0x8881, class=bridge (host) [no driver assigned]
pci0:18: UMC, device=0x886a, class=bridge (isa) [no driver assigned]
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