Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:27:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@gti.noc.demon.net> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: geoffb@demon.net, ortmann@sparc.isl.net, andyf@speednet.com.au, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, johan@granlund.nu Subject: Re: sio breakage Message-ID: <199811301627.QAA00766@gti.noc.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <199811300915.UAA08869@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Nov 30, 98 08:15:55 pm"
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> >> > I see these types of messages (when running XF86 3.3.2): > >> > > >> > Nov 25 23:10:11 zippy /kernel: sio0: 9 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1260) > >> > Nov 25 23:10:12 zippy /kernel: sio0: 4 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1264) > >> > Nov 25 23:10:15 zippy /kernel: sio0: 20 more tty-level buffer overflows (total 1284) > >> > Nov 26 13:36:55 zippy /kernel: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 4) > > This seems to be caused by some video cards and/or X drivers. > > >I am curious to know whats going on here, I have been seeing numerous > >silo overflows while using my laptop (2.2.6+PAO) as a console for a > >DEC multia/UDB, I had dismissed them as an annoyance probably caused > >by a slight misconfiguration in /etc/remote. > I was assuming the serial interface which is a fixed one breaking out of the back of the Laptop had nothing to do with the PCMCIA, however I have never investigated the internals of a laptop, or even given it much consideration. I can easily find the details of my video chipset and UART if this information would be of help to anyone investigating this, curently this is quite lowdown own list of things that need fixing/building etc. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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