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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:15:47 -0600
From:      Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Panic changing screen mode with vidcontrol
Message-ID:  <3C041EA3.7020100@yahoo.com>
References:  <XFMail.011127085446.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:

> On 27-Nov-01 Jim Bryant wrote:
> 
>>VESA is broked.  Remove VESA from your config.  Been this way for months.
>>
>>It also will panic once in a VESA mode, such as my favorite and yours,
>>132x60, when switching from vty to vty.
>>
> 
> Ouch, this is not good.  This means vm86 is likely broke.  Hmm, I wonder if the
> TSS is broken somehow?  Can you narrow this down to a particular commit?

I think I wrote on this sometime in June or July.  I went without internet access from about late-Feb/early-March through 
late-May/early-June.  Once I was able to cvsup again, the problem was there.  After writing to the list on this, I was responded to 
by the syscons maintainer [I forget his name, but I'll buy him a sake or Saporro to apologize for my memory lapse someday] who said 
that VESA is broken and should not be in my config.  Sure enough, removing VESA fixed it.

The closest answer I can give is the time-frame from about Feburary through June.  My schedule is quite full right now, but I could 
do a little browsing through the attic as I can, and see what I can find related to both vm86 and syscons, as long as there are 
other eyes looking for it too.

jim
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