From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 8 06:11:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA06525 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 06:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pardal (root@[200.255.244.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id GAA06491 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 06:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from paulo (paulo [200.1.1.51]) by pardal (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA01049 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:14:06 -0200 Message-ID: <32D38F9D.41C67EA6@sul.com.br> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 12:14:21 +0000 From: Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade Organization: FiscoData X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD hackers Subject: sig-11 plague Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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): 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 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]