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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 can't boot with serial ports enabled Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:42:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ee2od$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dvhd0$6lv@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4e3sc1$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4e71v3$m8i@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Grady) writes: > 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? Related, but not the same. You should disable the serial port at address 0x2e8 (sio3 aka. COM4). The S3 chips at least don't break by touching this register while they are not yet in `enhanced' mode. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)