Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 09:19:12 -0500 From: keyser@clio.rice.edu (Kevin Keyser) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: frozen virtual terminals on Dell system Message-ID: <9705061419.AA12817@clio.rice.edu>
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Hello,
I sent this note to questions@freebsd.org a few weeks ago and got no
replies, so I am trying here. If you have already seen it, please
excuse the duplication.
I am having a problem with the virtual terminal system on a machine
running FreeBSD 2.1.5R. The hardware is:
Dell Optiflex GXL 5166 (166MHz P5 PCI/ISA)
32M real memory
3Com 3C509 Etherlink III 16-bit ethernet card
Adaptec 1542C SCSI card
1.0G IBM SCSI disk (originally from an RS6000/370)
Phoenix S3 Trio64+ video adapter (built into motherboard)
IDE controller (in motherboard) w/ Quantum 2.0G (not used by FreeBSD)
PS/2 style mouse (have tried booting with and without psm0)
3.5" floppy
System Commander is installed (I occasionally need OS/2 or Win95
which reside on the IDE disk).
The install went smoothly and the system boots fine and recognizes all
the hardware for which I have the kernel configured. At some point
(not coincident with any other event I can think of) the system stops
responding to all keyboard input, just as if the keyboard had been
unplugged. I can still login across the network and everything else
seems healthy. I can echo something to /dev/ttyv0 and it shows up
there, and I can kill the process at that terminal and init spawns a
new getty just fine.
The same problem existed before I switched from the GENERIC kernel
to one that I customized to my machine.
I have included the output of dmesg below in case it would be helpful.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Kevin Keyser
keyser@clio.rice.edu
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bluehen# dmesg
FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 24 14:57:27 CDT 1997
keyser@bluehen.shell.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUEHEN
CPU: 166-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 30789632 (30068K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0 <Intel 82437 PCI cache memory controller> rev 2 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371 PCI-ISA bridge> rev 2 on pci0:7:0
chip2 <Intel 82371 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 2 on pci0:7:1
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 67 int a irq 11 on pci0:16
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
psm0: disabled, not probed.
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 72065B
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0: disabled, not probed.
aha0 at 0x334-0x337 irq 10 drq 6 on isa
aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(aha0:4:0): "IBM 0663L12 s z" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(aha0:4:0): Direct-Access 958MB (1962030 512 byte sectors)
2 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300 0x210
ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 12 on isa
ep0: aui/utp/bnc[*AUI*] address 00:60:97:99:1a:66
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
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