Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11806; Mon, 11 Dec 95 02:18:33 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09700; Mon, 11 Dec 95 02:18:39 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA31202; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 02:18:31 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA03492 Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA03137 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:19:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.lightside.com (user59.lightside.com [198.81.209.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA03114 Sun, 10 Dec 1995 22:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by localhost.lightside.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA01146; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:32:51 -0800 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:32:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI & XFree86? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Thanks to the advice of many people on the FreeBSD mailing list over the last few months as to IDE vs. SCSI, I finally took the plunge and bought a new SCSI controller. Of course my hard drives and CD-ROM are still IDE, but now that I've made the commitment, I can sell them and buy new SCSI stuff at my leisure. In the meantime, I'm testing this card (an Adaptec 2842A VESA local bus) with an external Iomega Zip drive.. I finally managed to get all three of my VLB cards properly seated (no small feat considering their length and the fact that my motherboard is somewhat loosely mounted in its tower case), and Windows 95 seems to recognize the controller properly. So did FreeBSD, with the GENERIC kernel (I'm building a custom kernel right now). The problem, however, is that with the SCSI controller installed, XFree86 consistently and repeatedly FREEZES SOLID which means that I can't properly shut down the system (since I can't switch back to a console) so I just have to hit the reset switch... Sheesh... The other cards installed are a "JAX 8241" generic S3 801 VLB SVGA card and a VLB dual IDE/serial/parallel/game card. The motherboard has an AMD DX4/100 and is set to 33MHz, no wait states. The Adaptec card has a panel with 8 DIP switches, which can set the card to 1C00h, 2C00h, 3C00h, etc, as well as enable/disable the onboard BIOS (right now its disabled since I have no bootable drives), and enable/disable the onboard floppy controller (disabled since there's one on the IDE card). Perhaps this custom kernel will fix matters. Otherwise, can anyone give me any hints for this particular card as to why it's causing these X Window problems? Thanks in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------