From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jul 7 22:38:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28836 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 22:38:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (0@arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28829 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 22:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lore.cs.purdue.edu (0@lore.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.16]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.4/PURDUE_CS-1.4) with ESMTP id AAA23673 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:38:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from rem.physics.purdue.edu (london.physics.purdue.edu [128.210.67.35]) by lore.cs.purdue.edu (8.8.4/PURDUE_CS-1.4) with SMTP id AAA24060 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:38:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <33C1D20E.5CC8@cs.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 00:37:18 -0500 From: Anthony Akens Reply-To: akensaj@cs.purdue.edu Organization: Purdue University X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Video Card Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a system that has a Diamond Speedstar 64 ISA video card in it. During the install process (for the walnut creek CD - using either the install program or the boot floppy) just after it says "booting kernel" the screen scrambles (the text is very distorted). When I tried installing with a different (VGA) video card in it worked fine. Is there any way to install FreeBSD with my current video card? My computer "specs" are below - if they are useful. Intel Pentium 133 processor ASUS Motherboard (Intel Chipset) Samsung 17Gli Monitor Samsung 8X CD-Rom Soundblaster 32 PnP Award Bios 64 Mb RAM 1.5GB Western Digital Hard drive, 600 Mb Seagate Hard drive Windows '95 is install on the 1.5 GB drive - I am trying to install FreeBSD on the 600 MB drive. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Anthony Akens Peter da Silva wrote: > > I'm not sure. Diamond had a bad habit of changing their cards and depending > on the BIOS to hide the changes. Try asking in hardware@freebsd.org. >