From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 20 00:30:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D91F106568B for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:30:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECEEF8FC13 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:30:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NXOT2-0003s7-5N for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:30:40 +0100 Received: from pool-72-75-61-67.washdc.east.verizon.net ([72.75.61.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:30:40 +0100 Received: from nightrecon by pool-72-75-61-67.washdc.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:30:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:30:27 -0500 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <4B561717.9090309@pp.dyndns.biz> <4B561A81.6010400@pp.dyndns.biz> <4B5620E9.6040902@pp.dyndns.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-75-61-67.washdc.east.verizon.net User-Agent: KNode/4.3.4 Sender: news Subject: Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 -> 7.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:30:45 -0000 Morgan Wesström wrote: > Morgan Wesström wrote: >> Morgan Wesström wrote: >>> I obviously did something wrong somewhere but I can't figure out what. >>> All console device nodes /dev/ttyv0 - /dev/ttyvf are missing after I >>> upgraded a machine from 7.0 to 7.2. The serial console node /dev/ttyd0 >>> is there though if that rings a bell. What controls the creation of the >>> console device nodes? Any hints on what I should check? I did deactivate >>> unneeded SCSI-drivers and the like in the GENERIC kernel but the tty >>> related stuff is still there, like: >>> >>> options COMPAT_43TTY # BSD 4.3 TTY compat >>> device sc >>> >> >> I'm also missing /dev/consolectl >> > > These dmesg lines are from another 7.2 machine and I am missing them > from the output of this newly upgraded machine: > > sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 > > Both devices are in the kernel. What could prevent them from binding? Is it maybe a newer system that has keyboard and mouse set to USB as a default which needs disabling in BIOS? I know a machine I just built I set the keyboard to "Legacy" to use the PS/2 port while the mouse stayed USB. -Mike