From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 17:23:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11096 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11079 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 17:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA06485; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:58:51 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512081158.LAA06485@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: User and Developer Support To: scottt@nacm.com (Scott Turvey) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 11:58:51 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512052029.MAA00663@daft.nacm.com> from "Scott Turvey" at Dec 5, 95 12:29:16 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Scott Turvey stands accused of saying: > i am having a problem getting freebsd to display during=20 > boot using an ati pci-based svga card. when it get to the video = > portion of the boot process, the signal to my monitor disappears = > and the monitor goes into powersave mode. a regular ati isa-based = > card works fine. anyone seen this? > btw, the machine does boot, you just can't see anything. This is a known conflict between the sio driver and the Mach64 chipset. You can work around this for installation by disabling all of the serial ports using userconfig, and then build a modified kernel that doesn't attempt to talk to sio3 by modifying /sys/i386/isa/sio.c : static Port_t likely_com_ports[] = { 0x3f8, 0x2f8, 0x3e8, 0x2e8, }; to static Port_t likely_com_ports[] = { 0x3f8, 0x2f8, 0x3e8, }; This has been fixed in -current. > Scott Turvey=20 > --NeXT-Mail-347089495-2-- if you _must_ use NeXT Mail, please disable all the mime extensions before posting to a mailing list. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[