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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!gidora.kralizec.net.au!not-for-mail From: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ATI Mach-64 problems in Textmode!!! Date: 12 Jan 1996 00:49:47 +1100 Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4d34hr$eq7@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <4culbj$gab@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.zeta.org.au Keywords: FreeBSD, ATI, installation In article <4culbj$gab@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl>, Geert Bosch <geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> wrote: >I have a very strange problem with FreeBSD v2.05R (didn't receive the >new one yet) and my ATI Mach-64 Xpression PCI videocard with 1 MB DRAM. >The kernel loads fine, but after that I get (when it starts >initializing hardware) a strange video-effect occurs and my screen >turns black and it looks like the (black) picture isn't synchronized >anymore. I tried to disable all devices which were not needed, >(including the possibly conflicting 4th serial port at 0x2E8) but that >didn'd help. Replacing the ATI Mach-64 with an old ET4000 fixed the >problem. Note that I'm not talking about X-Windows, but just the >normal text-mode. sio writes to the 4th serial port whether or not it is configured :-(. Try removing the one occurrence of 0x2e8 (and the comma following it in sio.c. This is fixed better in FreeBSD-current. Many S3 graphics cards use port 0x2ec (the one written to) but there is only a problem for some. -- Bruce Evans bde@zeta.org.au