From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 30 08:28:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12267 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12258 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoffb@gti.noc.demon.net) Received: by server.noc.demon.net; id QAA16917; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:27:56 GMT Received: from gti.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.101) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xma016885; Mon, 30 Nov 98 16:27:42 GMT Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by gti.noc.demon.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00766; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:27:33 GMT From: Geoff Buckingham Message-Id: <199811301627.QAA00766@gti.noc.demon.net> Subject: Re: sio breakage In-Reply-To: <199811300915.UAA08869@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Nov 30, 98 08:15:55 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:27:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: geoffb@demon.net, ortmann@sparc.isl.net, andyf@speednet.com.au, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, johan@granlund.nu Reply-To: geoffb@demon.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> > 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