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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!usenet From: cgainey@mhv.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATI Mach64 doesn't Work with FreeBsd Date: 3 Oct 1995 02:49:27 GMT Organization: MHVNet, the Mid Hudson Valley's Internet connection Lines: 22 Message-ID: <44q8bn$e3k@over.mhv.net> References: <44p5pg$3kr@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> Reply-To: cgainey@mhv.net NNTP-Posting-Host: port116.mhv.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 Michael, I have an ATI GX 2MB running OS/2 Warp with the ATI 1.54 drivers and at a 1280x1024x256 setting. BSD 2.0.5 also runs fine... so it can be done. It may have something to do with your power-on default settings. The actual display (which I don't think makes any difference) is a Gateway Crystal Scan 1572FS. Do you have some "green" thing going off? Chuck In <44p5pg$3kr@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>, vernick@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Vernick) writes: >I have a new machine with an ATI Mach64 card. Dos and Windows work >fine. However, when trying to load FreeBSD, during probe time of the video >card the monitor goes blank. I thought that the system had died but that is >not the case. I swapped the card into a working FreeBSD (2.0.5-RELEASE) >system and the same thing happened. Although the monitor went blank I could >still rlogin into the system so the probe just causes the monitor to blank >out. Any ideas? > >-- >Michael Vernick vernick@sbcs.sunysb.edu >Dept. Of Computer Science @ SUNY SB (516)-632-8434 >Stony Brook, NY 11794