Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:25:01 -0500 From: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> To: Alex Farber <alex@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: no luck with AIC7890 and X-Windows Message-ID: <35E6CBCD.2A82E1A@dialnet.net> References: <35E5F84C.DD17D9F4@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
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Alex Farber wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am really envious when reading all the success messages in this list.
>
> I have an ASUS-mainboard with AIC7890 and an Ultra2 IBM disk. Also an IDE
> disk (where Red Hat 5.1 is installed) and Diamond V330 PCI-graphic card.
>
> I have tried pre6 and pre7 patches with 2.0.35-2 kernel and I can
> mount the /dev/sda1 (even with vfat) when using console. But when
> I start X-Windows, everything hangs and I see just black screen.
> X-Windows works fine with the same kernel w/o patches.
>
> What could it be? Is there maybe some connection between PCI and SCSI?
> I tried disabling/enabling different SCSI BIOS options - no luck.
>
> So, please don't stop working on the AIC7XXX patch.
This sounds like your video card and the aic7xxx controller have overlapping
IO regions. Check the output of /proc/pci to make sure. If you have to,
try moving the video card to a different PCI slot and resetting the PCI
configuration data in the motherboard BIOS.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
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