Matrox Meteor on -current
Hi, Apparently the Matrox Meteor drivers haven't been updated yet, even though the note about COMPAT_OLDPCI has been in UPDATING since 03/2000. The CVS log doesn't show any significant activity on the driver either. Am I really the only person to use that frame grabber? Anyway, I suppose this also means there currently isn't really a maintainer I could bug. In which case I would volunteer to work on the driver if there's interest to keep FreeBSD support for this card. My kernel knowledge is still rather limited, but that's only a matter of time :-) Greetings, -Stephan stephan mantler: endurance sports maniacreality is in fact virtual. http://step.schmelzweb.at/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: -current install on large disk in non-LBA mode
John Baldwin wrote: Sectors more than 63 are not allowed for IDE drives at all. What happens when you use the LBA geometry? Does the drive not boot properly after being installed? Well, I did try LBA as well, but couldn't boot at all. boot2 did let me look at the root directory, but any further investigation (like trying 0:da(0,a)/boot/? ) produced junk and/or killed boot2. The Windows partition also didn't boot. Btw. according to http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/modesECHS-c.html the CHS parameters *are* within limits of the IDE/ATA standard; the Large mode is off limits since it can't get the Cylinder cound below 1024 without exceeding the max Heads. *sigh* what a mess :-) /step -- stephan mantler reality is in fact virtual. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://step.schmelzweb.at/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
-current install on large disk in non-LBA mode
tonight i tried once again to install from 5.0-DP1 and the 2002-10-25 snapshot media. it has been interesting. the disk i'm trying to install to is a seagate ST360021A 60G disk with a 30G windows partition already installed. the BIOS accepts it either as a 28733/16/255 Cyl/Hd/Sec CHS, 1915/240/255 Large, or 7297/255/63 LBA disk (yes, both CHS and Large with 255 sectors). I had the BIOS set to auto during the initial install, which apparently defaulted to CHS mode. Windows is happy to work in both CHS and Large modes, so i subsequently tried both settings for the FreeBSD install. However, sysinstall (neither from the 4.7-mini ISO nor the 5.0 snapshots i have) refuses to accept either and insists on the LBA geometry. using G to manually set the geometry doesn't help (you have entered an invalid geometry, a more likely blah blah). Wizard Mode let me enter the BIOS geometry but apparently refused to write anything back to disk. My next try was to create the partitions (er, slices) in Windows and try to go from there, but that didn't work out either. Disklabel just wouldn't cooperate. For the time being I'll wipe out another disk and install there, but i sure wonder which detail i've missed. regards, -stephan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: [-current] Re: 5.0-20021027-CURRENT.iso cdrom will not mount
FWIW, I'm experiencing the same issues with the Oct 25 ISO. The 5.0-DP1 CD installs fine but boot2 couldn't find the loader; this seems to be a disk geometry problem since I also can't list the contents of /boot or most other subdirs. Although I didn't have much time to investigate yet. Hardware: - Epox EP-8KTA3Pro mainboard (1200MHz CPU, 512M RAM) - Seagate (60GB), primary master (which i was installing on) - Plextor CDRW drive (5432? not sure), secondary master - lots of PCI cards (8-port Rocketport, Matrox Meteor, Pinnacle PCTV, etc.etc.) -stephan Makoto Matsushita wrote: Which type of machine did you try? I've heard exactly the same error on the VMware's virtual machine. -- stephan mantler reality is in fact virtual. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://step.schmelzweb.at/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
