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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 can't boot with serial ports enabled
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:11:32 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Lee Cremeans) writes:

> You can blame IBM for that.  On the 8514/A video card, this port was
> used as an extended control port.  ATI's high-end cards have always
> been compatible with it, right down to that port.

But they only broke it recently by even dealing with that port already
in non-enhanced mode.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)