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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!winternet.com!news1.io.org!rrwood From: Roy Wood <rrwood@io.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD with ATI Mach64 Date: Thu, 23 May 96 16:59:30 -0500 Organization: Silicon Angst Software Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <960523165511-rrwood@io.org> References: <31A341A7.45B2@ccohs.ca> Reply-To: rrwood@io.org NNTP-Posting-Host: bpci.net3.io.org X-Newsreader: rnMac v2.0d3 X-Email-CC: Will Lyons <w.lyons@ccohs.ca> In article <31A341A7.45B2@ccohs.ca>, Will Lyons writes: > I want to install FreeBSD on my new Pentium/133 with the triton chipset > but the boot disk seems to crash. I have tried it on several computers > and the two systems with ATI Mach64 cards with 2MB Dram will crash every > time? Does anyone have a suggestion? This is a well-known problem. The ATI's respond to FreeBSD's probe for a serial port at (I think) 0x2e8. I seem to have lost the posting someone put up a while back describing the whole situation in detail, but it basically involves compiling a kernel that does not poll the offending I/O port. In the meantime, I think you can just boot up in configuration mode (-c) and skip over the serial stuff. Oddly enough, I have an ATI Mach64 with 2M VRAM, and have never had a problem.... -Roy