From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 16:22:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA20094 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA20085 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:22:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA24131; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 17:18:11 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602140018.RAA24131@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Problem of Install FreeBSD 2.1! To: lliu@twolf7.EE.WASHINGTON.EDU (Le-Chin Eugene Liu) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 17:18:11 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Le-Chin Eugene Liu" at Feb 13, 96 01:10:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > The video card you are using illegally (IMO) uses the com3 address range. > > Sorry to correct you, but I think the address is COM4(sio3), 0x2e8. > I have the same problem using a new ATI CT Mach64 card. From what I > was told, the story is that IBM used 0x2e8 in their 8514A standard. > So for compatibility's reason, other graphic chips use that address, > too. But usually, the they have the register "hidden" until the > enhanced mode is invoked. Unfortunately, Mach64 has that register > always activated. That causes the problem. Thanks for the correction. This should go into the FAQ. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.