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From: cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Lee Cremeans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 can't boot with serial ports enabled
Date: 28 Jan 1996 23:00:51 -0500
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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L. Liu (lliu@u.washington.edu) wrote:

: 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?

You can blame IBM for that.  On the 8514/A video card, this port was used
as an extended control port.  ATI's high-end cards have always been compatible
with it, right down to that port.

Lee C. at school
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