From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 1 15:24:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A62A37BB2E for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA44671; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008012224.PAA44671@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Problems with a PW500au In-Reply-To: <200008012155.OAA43506@pike.osd.bsdi.com> from John Baldwin at "Aug 1, 2000 02:55:52 pm" To: John Baldwin Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message