From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 21:51:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA17010 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA17005 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00650; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:51:38 -0800 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:51:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Douglas Russell cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ATI Mach64D In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Douglas Russell wrote: > Last night I put together a new Pentium 150 machine for a friend of mine > with an ATI Mach64D PCI video card. When we went to install FreeBSD > 2.1.0-RELEASE on it, booting from the standard install floppy, as soon as > it gets to the sio (si0? whetever it is, I don't have anything in front > of me right now), the standard console driver, right after it does the > CPU type determination, the video goes nuts. It switches to some wild > mode that basically just comes out snow. I tried another video card (an > old Trident or something, ISA) it worked fine... You need to disable the sio probe. See the FAQ. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major