From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 08:02:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17910 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA17895 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA01182; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:04:32 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:04:32 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199603071604.JAA01182@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Jesper Hagen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent problem with ATI Graphics Expression. In-Reply-To: <199603071252.NAA00296@helium.iesd.auc.dk> References: <199603071252.NAA00296@helium.iesd.auc.dk> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [ ATI cards ] > Right now we have just received a new bunch of the cards which simply > blanks the screen at the moment when the FreeBSD kernel has been > loaded and starts probing for devices. This screen remains blank until > the machine reboots. In other words, not even TEXT MODE is possible > under FreeBSD with this new shipment. It's only partially the cards fault. It uses the same port as COM4/sio3, so what you'll want to do is disable the sio probe by booting with '-c' at the boot prompt, and then upgrade your sources to -stable which fixes this problem by removing the automagic probe of sio3 from the generic sio probe. Nate