From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 29 21:41:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 937D237B422 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA05000 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Console problems on alpha with -current Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am trying to upgrade my Alpha system from May 30's -current to today's. I went through the rigaramole of creating an appropriate /boot/device.hints file, etc. The new kernel works OK, except the console gets strange right around the time this message comes out: sc0: on isa0 At that point it switches back to the SRM-style white-on-blue from the normal white-on-black color scheme, and it loses the remaining lines of probes on the display. If I press Enter at that point, it scrolls up with white-on-black letters entering from the bottom of the screen, and I can type on it OK. But there is a rapidly flashing cursor in the lower left-hand corner of the screen which won't go away. This is in addition to the regular cursor which seems to work normally. I compared the dmesg output from my old working kernel with this new one, and these are the only significant differences: 24a25 > cia0: <2117x Core Logic chipset> 57c58 < sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> --- > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> Thinking the "flags=0x200" might be the issue, I added this to /boot/device.hints: hint.sc.0.flags="0x200" It didn't make any difference. Have any of you seen this problem? John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message