Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:46:36 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morgan_Wesstr=F6m?= <freebsd-questions@pp.dyndns.biz> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 -> 7.2 Message-ID: <4B56C2EC.4070609@pp.dyndns.biz> In-Reply-To: <hj5iqn$b4l$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <4B561717.9090309@pp.dyndns.biz> <4B561A81.6010400@pp.dyndns.biz> <4B5620E9.6040902@pp.dyndns.biz> <hj5iqn$b4l$1@ger.gmane.org>
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>> These dmesg lines are from another 7.2 machine and I am missing them
>> from the output of this newly upgraded machine:
>>
>> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> 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
>
Thanks for your answer Mike. The system is actually an old Celeron on an
Intel i865 based mainboard so the hardware should be pretty well
supported I guess and after all - it did work with 7.0. The machine is
only used as a router so the lack of virtual terminals aren't critical
but I still would like to solve it. I will have the owner look for a
more recent BIOS and then I'll reinstall the GENERIC kernel before
filing a bug report. Here's a more verbose dmesg snippet that might give
someone a clue:
agp0: <Intel 82865 host to AGP bridge> on hostb0
agp0: allocating GATT for aperture of size 128M
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem
0xf8000000-0xf8ffffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xf9000000-0xf9ffffff irq 3
at device 0.0 on pci1
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
sc: sc0 already exists; skipping it
vga: vga0 already exists; skipping it
isa_probe_children: disabling PnP devices
isa_probe_children: probing non-PnP devices
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: no video adapter found.
sc0: <System console> failed to probe on isa0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> failed to probe on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
vt0: not probed (disabled)
isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
What is that vt0 (disabled)? Is that related? pciconf reports this:
pcib1@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x25718086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x01
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82865G/PE/P, 82848P PCI-to-AGP Bridge'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-PCI
isab0@pci0:0:31:0: class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x24d08086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-ISA
vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x2034107d chip=0x022010de
rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Nvidia Corp'
class = display
subclass = VGA
Googling on this turns up a lot of older posts with references to PnP
incompatibilities and ATA but I can't find any info that helps me with
syscons.
Regards
Morgan
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