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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