Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org, peter@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Console problems on alpha with -current Message-ID: <200008300505.WAA43988@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000829214121.jdp@polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Aug 29, 2000 09:41:21 pm"
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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 <jhb@bsdi.com> -- 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
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