From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 23:23:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA25040 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA24988 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:23:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA19121; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:20:09 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199702200720.JAA19121@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Another sleepless night.... (Was: 2.2-Anything Install Failure) In-Reply-To: <199702200656.BAA00417@Radford.i-Plus.net> from Troy Settle at "Feb 20, 97 02:09:20 am" To: rewt@i-Plus.net Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 09:20:09 +0200 (SAT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I haven't been able to get Anything above 2.1.6-RELEASE to install on our > > > server. It is a Pentium 100mhz with a Diamond Speedstar Pro SE > > > and it just flashes little characters when i try to install. > > > > Yep, saw your PR. I've assigned it to Soren, our syscons hacker. > > If anybody can fix it (and if anybody broke it), it's Soren. :-) > > > > Jordan > > Jordan: > > I'm glad you got someone cracking down on syscons... while he's at > it, could you have him look at the screen blanker? > > > I set a blanktime of 300 in /etc/sysconfig. After which, my server > would crash if left unattended for 5 minutes after booting. > (or 5 minutes after the last time I touched the keyboard). I set the > blanktime back to NO, and all is well again. > Now this smells like old lkm's to me. When you update your kernel you should also update your /lkm directory. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za