From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 25 15:17:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21914 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA21891 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 15942 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Feb 1998 23:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-022398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34F46C2D.92C55594@excite.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:24:00 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Kingson Gunawan Subject: Re: Help needed with DPT card + Asus M/B Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Tom Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Feb-98 Kingson Gunawan wrote: ... > 1. Disabling both L? caches > 2. Disabling anything in the BIOS such as PS/2 mouse function, etc. > 3. Assigning specific IRQ in the BIOS to my ISA card (although it is a > PnP SB16 card). > 4. Removing all cards other than the DPT and video card. > 5. Moving DPT around to different slots. > 6. Changing the m/b with another unit of the same made and model. > 7. Compile the kernel with a number of DPT options on/off. The only thing (and it probably will not help, is to play with shadow memory setting in the 640K-1024K no-man-land of memory. > DPT and Asus board simply won't cooperate. Changing the m/b to Air > P6KDI makes things work instantly. I think I am about to incinerate the > m/b... :-) I think you should call DPT support. The call is free, the people nice and know their stuff. > The wierd thing is that using the DPT freebsd boot floopy from sandero, > it did successfully boot up the system. Well, the quality of compilation here at Simon's Garage is world known for its exceptional quality, craftsmanship and dedication to customer service :-) [ I am considering switching to marketing - much easier than actually make things work - How am i doing with meaningless superlatives so far? ] ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message