From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 29 22: 6:30 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 E580637B43C; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA43988; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200008300505.WAA43988@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Console problems on alpha with -current In-Reply-To: from John Polstra at "Aug 29, 2000 09:41:21 pm" To: John Polstra Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, peter@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 Polstra wrote: > 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? Yes. The vidconsole on my alpha (500a PWS) has been broken since Peter's drive-by shooting of config(8). We all need to beat up Peter until he fixes it. :) My symptoms are somewhat similar, except that I never get black on white text until getty starts on ttyv0, and I never see any of the startup messages once init starts either. > John -- 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