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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!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!primus.ac.net!news.serv.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!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 20:40:38 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4ee2k6$np9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dvhd0$6lv@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4e3sc1$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4e953d$j0e@nntp5.u.washington.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 lliu@u.washington.edu (L. Liu) writes: > You're right. I finally found the problem is my ATI Mach64 card. I'll > try to recompile the kernel according to your suggestion. Why did ATI > want to use a well-know port address anyway? Since IBM used it in their 8514/A. (Yes the very same IBM that has assigned it for COM4.) The only crime of ATI is to get the register even in effect while the card is not running in `enhanced' mode. That's the difference from other Mach's and from all the S3 chips. -- 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. ;-)