Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:38:17 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: timo <timo@bolverk.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation hangs upon completion Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012101629570.345-100000@galaxian.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A33F667.2098654F@bolverk.net>
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, timo wrote: > I must start by saying that I'm newer than new to FreeBSD. My > only experience with it is two failed installations. Welcome :) > > My installations goes well, I get a message saying that > the installation is done, and asks if I would like to go to > graphical mode. When I select yes, my screen goes a funny > combination of white and black dots/lines reminiscent of what > I see during XF86 startup on my linux machine. My screen > stays that way, and nothing else happens. I can't get out of > that screen shot except by cycling power to the machine. I think <ctrl-alt-backspace> would get you out of it. That is the standard key sequence to kill an X server, and should work during sysinstall, though I've not needed to. > My instincts told me on the first hang that it was a fluke. > The second time I thought video card incompatibility. I tried > to find info on video card compatibility for BSD itself. The > compatibility list I found didn't include any information on video. > I then looked for compatibility with XF86. The compatibility list > there was pretty short, and did not contain my particular device. > > FTR, I am using an Amptron PM-598 mb, with an onboard SiS530 > Built-in 64-bit 3D v1.0 AGP Graphics accelerator (read: P.O.S.). > > Am I on the right track looking at video card compatibility? > Are there resources other than 'BSD's website, manuals, etc. > that I may be overlooking? Ideas? You're on the right track. FreeBSD does not support video cards for Graphics, XFree86 does. Try searching their website harder and for the Sis chip. If the chip is suported (somebody else may know if it is) you can probably get the card to work with X. So you have a few options: --run freebsd without X installed. You would still have a lot of things available to you, and could learn a lot about FreeBSD, Unix, computers in general, and many other things. You could still have internet access. Just choose the non-X install. --get a new video card. There are video cards that work with XFree that are pretty cheap. you would have to do some searching. --try the Xfree86configure, non graphical program. It can sometimes work where Xfree86setup (the graphical one) does not. Good luck, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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