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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!adam.kaist.ac.kr!stair From: stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr (Minsung Kim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need help with insatll to P-100 w/ATI Mach 64 Date: 9 Mar 1996 10:24:31 GMT Organization: Korea Research Environment Open Network (KREONet) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4hrm8v$6tt@news.kreonet.re.kr> References: <4hpihl$1m9@mordred.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.kaist.ac.kr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Sunil A. Bhagia (sunman@wrekquest.ohr.gatech.edu) wrote: : Hey guys I have a little install problem. I just read a post and that : might help me out but here is the deal. I have an AST Brovo MS-T P/100 : withch is a P-100 with an ATI Mach 64 graphics card amoung other things. : The install floppy boots fine and i can get out to the configuration for : the kernel without a problem. As I allow it to boot it starts to boot : it probes my devices and then all of a sudden the screen looses sync and : blanks out (ther are some dotted lines on it but that is all). So... : if anyone has some insight on this problem please advise me. : I will try to read this group more closly but my news access is spratic : at best so if you gues dont mind sending me a copy for any post with : regaurd to this I would appericate. : Thanks : sunil I'm not sure this will help you, but try disabling detection of sio3 device at boot-up. Address range which ATI Mach64 card uses overlaps that which COM4 (sio3) uses. You can give -c switch at the bootstrap loader prompt and then give "visual" command at the "config>" prompt to enter a menu for disabling it. -- Stair =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Minsung Kim <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr> Undergraduate CS Dept., KAIST