From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Dec 17 19: 7:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from spoon.beta.com (h00a0242f177e.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.8.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7864A14CA6 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:07:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost.beta.com [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01916; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:07:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Message-Id: <199912180307.WAA01916@spoon.beta.com> To: Colin Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" , freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com Subject: Re: Kernel Panic when VESA support compiled in In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:18:00 EST." Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:07:08 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 3.4 was supposed to be "ready" on the 15th ;) Thats probably why you're hearing about it. However, we still have some big problems to get through with... As to VESA, I compiled it in here with no problems. The only thing I did with it, however, was to switch some text modes on the console. Perhaps a couple of others in the group and try it, and see if its just your hardware, or whether we can duplicate it. -Brian > I'm doing this as fast as I can, unfortunately work keeps interfering w ith > the important things in my life ;) > I turned on VM86, recompiled and it works. By elimination, the problem is > in VESA. From LINT, I surmise that VM86 is required for VESA so I can't rea lly > test that...or can I? I also need a few hours to make sure it's not somethi ng > I'm doing and is in fact a bug. That's why I haven't cross posted to -HACKE RS > or -STABLE yet. That will happen later tonight, probably. > At this late stage, a note in errata would probably be appropriate, sin ce > from the web resources I've seen, this obviously works on at least some > controllers ;) > > Just for information, there are already announcements about 3.4-RELEASE on > daily.daemonnews.org. I guess some people are getting anxious ;) > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Colin > Date: 17-Dec-1999 > Time: 19:05:21 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message