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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with a PW500au
Message-ID:  <200008012224.PAA44671@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008012155.OAA43506@pike.osd.bsdi.com> from John Baldwin at "Aug 1, 2000 02:55:52 pm"

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John Baldwin wrote:
> Well, moving to the 64-bit slots did change things somewhat.  Now all but
> 2 of the S3 cards work the same as in situation 2) in my original mail.
> The other 2 don't have PCI ID's recognized by SRM.  However, now the original
> card has problems with the console.  So, I tried booting off a 4.1-RC CD,
> and voila, my kernel messages are now in syscons colors and the scrollback
> works.  It seems that syscons is broken on Alpha in -current at the moment.
> :(
> 
> Ok, further testing reveals that Peter's drive-by shooting of config(8) is
> the cause of the breakage.

A bit of prodding on IRC revealed that I this bug was fixed and I just
needed to update my sources.

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