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Date:      Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:20:32 +0100 (CET)
From:      Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Weird syscons errors
Message-ID:  <199801111720.SAA05066@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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Hi!

After having built the world and kernel from something like midnight
yesterday (CET) I have this weird problem that I didn't have with a kernel
from late december. Anyone else seen this? I have noticed syscons changes
lately, and I'm wondering if they screwed anything up.

What happens is that after the probe messages have come up, I get no more
output. The computer continues to boot to full multiuser mode, and I can
log in, but I have to do it "blindly". There seems to be no way to the
console into displaying anything except those frozen boot messages.
If I log in and and vidconrol "VGA_80x50", for example, the mode _does_
change, but the text doesn't. And I can switch vtys, but without any real
significant change. Only way I could tell that switching vtys worked was
because I had one vty in VGA_80x50 mode. If I start X11, it will switch
to graphic mode just fine, and run in X11. Then when I exit X11, I get
the same crap again.

So... What's wrong? Anyone else seen this?

  /Mikael



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