From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 12:15:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22562 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mother.cdrom.com (mother.cdrom.com [204.216.28.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22557 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by mother.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA10166 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:15:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamil Weatherbee To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with FreeBSD (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Technical Support Walnut Creek CDROM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:04:46 +0200 From: John Basila To: info@cdrom.com Subject: Problem with FreeBSD Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 05:02:37 -0700 Resent-From: Order Information Resent-To: support@cdrom.com Dear Reader... I bought FreeBSD from your site (www.cdrom.com) & I tryed to install it after I hade linux for about 1 year I wanted to see FreeBSD any way... The problem is : when the kernel (at boot time!) starts to look for hardware the screen gose blank!! simply BLANK!. & that's it I can't do anything, I tryed to go deep & see what is the problem, ok, I hade an old ISA Trident SVGA, I installed it & every thing went gr8!. hmm .. I tryed almost everything (Even removing ALL the cards EXCEPT the Graphic card & again nothing, the card is (very strangly) ATI Graphics Xpression 2DRAM, I even tryed it with my friends computer that hade an ATI 2VRAM nothing .. .it worked gr8! any way, I relly want to run the FreeBSD, couse I'm sick of linux, it's ok but it's full of securety holes & bugs!, but it's not bad AT ALL!, any way please help me out!. if you wold like me to send you any other info about my hardware please tell me. 10x :) john Basila john_b@netvision.net.il