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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!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: 5 Feb 1996 10:11:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4f4l4k$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4dvhd0$6lv@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4e3sc1$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4e953d$j0e@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4ehgpj$v2k@csugrad.cs.vt.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 cremeans@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Lee Cremeans) writes: > 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. But they only broke it recently by even dealing with that port already in non-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. ;-)