From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 6:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B38237BCB1 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 06:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p22-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.151]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id XAA08505; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:47:13 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38C3C4A9.57282E2C@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 23:46:02 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Jacobson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: things I noticed w/ 4.0 References: <200003040309.WAA03110@home.my.domain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Jacobson wrote: > > VESA is compiled into the kernel. I don't have a /boot/loader.conf > file. Is there any other way for the VESA module to be loaded at boot, > before /etc/rc runs? Also, none of the vidcontrol VESA modes work for > me. (All this isn't a big deal, but the error message is weird). Nope. Might be what Mike said. Nowadays, an increasing number of video cards aren't VESA, or only do VESA with software drivers. > I didn't express myself very well in the above paragraph. :) Here is the > behavior exhibited by my box with apm. When apm is enabled in the bios, > and 'apm -e enable' is run, 'halt -p' causes the system to reboot. 'zzz' > causes the system to hang (unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input). > (I didn't try all permutations of my apm bios settings with 'zzz' to see > if I can work around the hang, but I don't think that's the cause). > Pushing my power button during the hang state caused the system to reboot. > Also, when apm is enabled, after a regular 'halt' or 'shutdown', pushing > the power button causes the machine to reset, not turn off. Might be a apm option thingy. I haven't tweaked this in quite a while, but... in the past, by default APM 2.0 was _not_ activated, because some older stuff would crash. The default in the kernel had some flags or missed some flags that enabled it. Look up GENERIC/LINT, and check for those flags. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message