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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: Problems with Mach64 Accelerator Message-ID: <DHGuFG.F6C@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #3 References: <1995Nov1.162427.21676@zippy.dct.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:53:03 GMT Lines: 25 In article <1995Nov1.162427.21676@zippy.dct.ac.uk>, sh@dstn26.dct.ac.uk (Sinclair Hay) wrote: >Has anyone else been having problems with the ATI Mach 64 >Graphics Accelerator card. When I boot up and the serial ports >are probed my screen goes blank and the machine continues to boot >and operate as normal (except for the totally blank screen). > >If I swap the Mach 64 for an old VGA card everything works OK. > >Therefore if I want to use FreeBSD I have to disable my serial >ports. As a result I have no mouse and I can't use X windows. > >Any suggestions will be gratefully received > I have the same (and other) problems with the ATI Graphics Xpression. I have given up and am searching for a replacement card (PCI bus supported by XFree86 v3.1.2). I built a kernal without sio support and used a bus mouse, which allowed FreeBSD to boot, but I could not get a working "Clocks" line for the ATI board, so XFree86 won't work. | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |