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From: Guoqin Ren <renguoqin@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: The screen starts to vibrate violently once the "Main Installation Menu" is shown.
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>Number:         121278
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       The screen starts to vibrate violently once the "Main Installation Menu" is shown.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gavin
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 02 04:40:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:    Fri Aug 01 17:42:05 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Fri Aug 01 17:42:05 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Guoqin Ren
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-Release i386
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
Dell dimension 5150, P4 630 3Ghz, Intel 945P/G, 2G ddr2 533 ram. Bios
is the newest.
>Description:
I burned the installation cds( FreeBSD 7.0-Release ISO i386 ). During
the installation, the screen starts to vibrate violently once the "Main
Installation Menu" is shown. Then the  keyboard becomes useless and the
only thing I can do is to shutdown the computer. This happened every
time I try to install FreeBSD 7.

 

 BTW: I tried the installation CD on my old Gateway P3 500mhz pc, and it
worked fine. I also burned another 7.0 installation cd and that cd
doesn't work on the Dell, either. Should there be hardware compatible
problems?

>How-To-Repeat:
This happened every
time I try to install FreeBSD 7.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 3 16:07:25 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
To submitter:  I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean by "the 
screen vibrates violently".  Do you mean that your monitor seems unable to 
display the picture stably (ie a sync problem?).  If so, are you able to 
test with a different monitor to see if that solves the problem?  Do you 
know if older releases of FreeBSD (6.x, 5.x) show the same problem? 
What type of graphics card does the machine contain? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Apr 3 16:07:25 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Track 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121278 

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/121278: The screen starts to vibrate violently once the "Main Installation Menu" is shown.
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:13:51 +0100

 -------- Forwarded Message --------
 From: Guoqin Ren <renguoqin@gmail.com>
 To: gavin@FreeBSD.org
 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:33:24 -0400
 
 Hi Gavin,
 
   Thank you very much for your reply.  I've solved the problem. It might 
 be a bios problem/bug, I think.
 
 The machine I'm using is a Dell Dimension 5150. It has  It had windows 
 xp with the newest bios  "D5150A07". It caused the problem when 
 installing FreeBSD (including fb7.fb6.3,fb6.2, maybe all fb's). I was 
 trying to find an older bios. At first, I could only find this newest 
 bios "D5150A07" on http://support.dell.com/support/downloads But then I 
 played an old trick: google, for example, D5150A05 (btw, google D5150A06 
 yields nothing). And I found a link to this bios :
 http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R121641&SystemID=Dimension%205150/E510&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=308&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=4&formatcnt=1&libid=1&fileid=161979
 
 This old bios solved the problem.Hope this information could help others 
 who have Dell Dimension 5150.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Guoqin Ren

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
To: Guoqin Ren <renguoqin@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/121278: The screen starts to vibrate violently once the "Main Installation Menu" is shown.
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:53:50 +0100

 To submitter: Are you able to try to boot NetBSD, OpenBSD or a CLI
 version of Linux (ie with graphic mode disabled) on the version of the
 BIOS which caused problems with FreeBSD, and see if any of those show
 the same symptoms?
 
 At this point, I'm not sure if it is a FreeBSD or a BIOS issue...
 Hopefully, knowing if other OSs have the same problem in text mode might
 help narrow it down.

From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/121278: The screen starts to vibrate violently once the
	"Main Installation Menu" is shown.
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:46:25 +0100

 Submitter replied privately that he hasn't had a chance yet to test
 other CLI-based installers on the version of the BIOS which had issues
 previously.  Keep this PR open for a few more weeks just in case.
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 1 17:41:04 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Close, problem was fixed by downgrading the BIOS.  Without further 
feedback, there doesn't seem much chance of getting to the bottom of this. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121278 
>Unformatted:
