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From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Grady)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 can't boot with serial ports enabled
Date: 25 Jan 1996 04:46:27 GMT
Organization: Experimental Computing Facility, UC Berkeley
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>lliu@u.washington.edu (L. Liu) writes:

>The sio driver touches the interrupt mode registers of ``well-known
>serial ports''.  This kills your Mach64.  (Note: the system boots in
>the background anyway.)

I saw what seemed to be a similar problem with my miroVideo 20SV card.
I installed an additional I/O card (with 2S/1P/1G), and I found that
the machine hung just as xdm would have started.  The miroVideo
uses a S3 968.  Of course, without the additional card, it boots
just fine.  Is this likely to be the same problem?
--
	Steven
	grady@xcf.berkeley.edu
"Why is there a watermelon there?"
"I'll tell you later."