From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 30 9:29:42 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 403F237B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:29:40 -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 JAA08000; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA39892; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:29:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200008301629.JAA39892@vashon.polstra.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org Cc: jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com Subject: Re: Console problems on alpha with -current In-Reply-To: <200008300505.WAA43988@pike.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200008300505.WAA43988@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <200008300505.WAA43988@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, John Baldwin wrote: > Yes. The vidconsole on my alpha (500a PWS) has been broken since > Peter's drive-by shooting of config(8). It seems you are right about the cause of the problem. I have now built a kernel with the hints compiled in statically using the "hints" directive in the config file. The console works fine in that kernel. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message