Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 14:02:04 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with WD/Phillips 9710 video and 2.1.6-RELEASE Install Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970120134114.9420D-100000@becker1.u.washington.edu>
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Hi hackers and Jordan; After the difficulties i had with the ppp install i dropped back to 2.1.6-RELEASE because i need my machines for school. I have a amd 486/133 machine that i was using as a server that has been replaced by a amd k5-pr100. I have now replaced my venerable micronics 386/33 seat ( my first freebsd board from pre 1.0 days ) with the 486/133 and added a nifty $59.00 phillips 9710 based western digital 2meg edo pci video card . This were the trouble occurs. I can boot the machine and do the visual kernel config, but as soon as the install proceeds to the beautiful blue screen colortext configuration menu, the screen goes blank! arggh!. Is there some pci configuration thing i need to do? Does the install not work with pci video cards? that seems hard to believe. is there some bios hack i need to do to get the card to pretend to be a vga card or something? I suppose i could use one of my old lame cards for the install, but that would not be practical for most folks. The install has preceded normally for the k5-100 fake pentium machine with the lame wd90c00 video card ( it is my server, i never have a monitor or keyboard plugged in unless i am in maintanance mode ). The sig11 problems with this machine has been reviewd in another letter. I can't believe i have done this to myself. I have spent years reading about peoples troubles with unsupported hardware, greed made me foolish ( 2megedo-penus envy! ). suggestions or work arounds appreicated..jordan, if this is an issue that has not come up before on the install, i would be happy to tryout anything u can gin up. tnx! ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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