Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:47:41 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Notebook install hangs with blank screen Message-ID: <199710211147.GAA13983@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Trying to install any of the recent 2.2.5-BETAs and 3.0-SNAPS on my notebook does not work. Everything seems to be fine, all the devices are probed successfully, but at the point when the main installation menu should come up, the display blanks. I can hear the disk chirping for a second or two, as if everything else is fine. I can even switch to the emergency holographic shell (Alt-F2) to see messages. I've tried disabling everything that I don't need, including all the serial and parallel ports. Still no luck. Here's the hardware: Chembook 6800XL 200MHzMMX Opti FireStar 82C700 Chips & Technologies 65554 TI-1131 PCMCIA controller ESS 1878/1879 Audio/Wave PS/2 trackpad Teac CD-220E CD-ROM 14.1" TFT XGA I've also tried disabling every power management feature in BIOS. I've also tried the 2.2 PAO boot floppy, and while I can get the initial visual displays that ask you if you want English or Japanese, etc, when it gets to the point where the initial installation screen should appear, it hangs. It seems like syscons is having problems talking to the display? I've searched the archives, but I haven't found anything similar (except for the sio problems with some video cards, and I have disabled all the sio ports). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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