Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 01:26:39 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> To: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird syscons errors Message-ID: <199801120026.BAA00286@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199801111815.SAA28880@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from Brian Somers at "Jan 11, 98 06:15:03 pm"
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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? > > Yep. Go to /sys/net/i386/isa/syscons.c 1.242 and the problem will go > away. Did that, and the problem did not go away. So I speculate syscons.c dead keys are not the reason for syscons dead screens. Wolfgang > > > /Mikael > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > >
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