Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:14:53 -0500 From: "Jordon Hofer" <bsdlist@sirjorj.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: ASUS V9400 video card prevents FreeBSD from booting Message-ID: <DOEALJLPJEKMGMMEODOKMEHNCAAA.bsdlist@sirjorj.com>
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Greetings. I recently discovered why FreeBSD quit working on my computer. When I replaced my GeForce 2 MX400 with a GeForce MX 4000-based card from ASUS (The X Series V9400 with 64 meg of RAM), FreeBSD no longer boots. For what it's worth, the contents of my computer are as follows: Dual P3-1.4 Tualatin procs in a TYAN mobo 1 gig RAM Adaptec 39160 -9 gig Cheetah (Windows 2k install) -18 gig Cheetah (NTFS) -4 gig UltraStar (i dont even remember whats on this one...) -Plextor CDRW -Zip Drive Built-in IDE controller -40 gig Maxtor (this drive is for FreeBSD) -Plextor DVDRW SB Audigy Netgear NIC Belkin USB2.0 card *** The long story is that I had FreeBSD 5.3 on the 40 gig drive from an install/update/rebuild I did a while back. My dual-boot setup is pretty unique in that I either have the 40 gig drive plugged in or I have the SCSI drives plugged in to keep the two systems isolated. I gave DragonflyBSD a try recently and found that it wouldd hang during the boot sequence. I then tried booting the BSD install I already had and found that it hung too. I tried booting the 5.3 install CD and got the same results. After lots of testing, including pulling out all hardware that wasnt essential to boot, I finally remembered that I had recently replaced video cards in favor of one with DVI support for my new LCD monitor. After I put the old video card back in, the 5.3 cd booted just fine. I just tried booting 4.11 (from a real BSDmall-purchased, honest-to-goodness, ours-goes-to-eleven cd and dvd) and got the same results. I really dont know how to proceed from here. If there is any other trick or way to get info to help the developers recognize this hardware and/or what is causing it to crash the system, I'm willing to help. *** Other interesting things I noticed: -Both win2k and bsd5.3 seem to see a firewire adapter on this video card even though there is no firewire connector on it. -I got halfway through typing out this email last week when win2k took a huge dump and the only thing saving me from a reinstall was SpinRite 6. -Yes, I did try booting 5.3 with different options from the menu: verbose mode, ACPI, etc... When in non-verbose mode, the last thing I saw was the waiting 15 sec for SCSI devices message. In verbose mode, I saw a few messages beyond that. jorj
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