Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 09:56:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: sos@freebsd.dk (Soren Schmidt) Cc: Joachim.Isaksson@ibfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changes to console code? Message-ID: <199905051456.JAA18024@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <199905051350.PAA25947@freebsd.dk> from Soren Schmidt at "May 5, 1999 3:50:44 pm"
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> It seems Joachim Isaksson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was running current 4.0 990318 (as far as I can remember, can look that up > > once I get home from work), and yesterday I decided to do an upgrade to 990504 > > via a clean install from boot floppy. > > > > My console now decides to go blank when the probe for sc0 is attempted. As far > > as I can see it never gets any further in the boot sequence. Luckily I got the > > problem at floppy boot, not after killing my old system off :) > > Hmm, I've seen this a couble of times, but a reboot have succeded every time. > The machine is locked solid when this happens, so I've kindof written it > off as flaky HW, that might have been premature. I thought it was hanging > in the VESA/VM86 code, but I dont think that is enabled on the boot floppy... > > Hmm... > > -Søren > I'm seeing something similar.... very current code makes my system essentially throw the cursor all over a blank screen (like it's printing spaces or tabs very fast)... Going back to Mar 15th's kernel, it went away. I haven't had time to track this down any further, but i blamed it on weird hardware too. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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