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From: galaad@rot.qc.ca (Colin Surprenant)
Subject: NetBSD-0.8 + ATI GUP crashes!
Message-ID: <CC0K28.9Iw@rot.qc.ca>
Organization: Groupe de Recherche Operationnelle en Telecommunication (ROT) Inc.
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 15:51:43 GMT
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Hi,
This is a weird one.
On my machine, 486/33 EISA I used to run NetBSD-0.8 with my on-board
video controller based on a WD90C31. Everything worked well, in text mode
and with XFree86 1.3.

Now I bought a ATI GUP EISA, I disabled my onboard video and tried to boot
NetBSD. Everything looks fine until I log in (on the console, no XFree here)
I get this message: syslogd: input/output on /dev/console.
I realized that inetd and sometimes crond are coredumping.

I tried every possible configuration of my GUP with no luck.

I installed codrv, ans it still crashes the same way.

Anybody have a hint of what my cause that?
Should I spend the time diging in or should I wait the next release
which may solved this [know?] problem?

thanks,
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