Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:19:32 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: reboot when using vidcontrol Message-ID: <199602201319.AAA06513@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
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I have three machines which will each intermittently reboot .. screen goes blank then back to the BIOS memory test .. when using vidcontrol :-( I have no idea what causes it although since I only ever run vidcontrol immediately after a shutdown, there may be some backlogged network activity starting up (deferred sendmail activity started by secondary MX receivers). Whilst I don't believe this has any direct impact, the timing variance incurred by the extra load may. The most affected is the slowest (this machine), a 386DX/40. The exact command-line I use is "vidcontrol VGA_80x30" but I've seen it once with 80x50. Anybody have any thoughts ? BTW .. it also happened before the recent syscons changes so I don't believe they're related, michael
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