From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 22 6:31:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE3F37B4CF; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 06:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06680; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:31:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAMEVos64701; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:31:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:31:50 -0500 (EST) To: "John W. De Boskey" Cc: Current List Subject: Re: No console on AlphaServer 2000 4/233 4.2-RC2 In-Reply-To: <20001121125955.A76196@FreeBSD.org> References: <20001121125955.A76196@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14875.55102.709671.416932@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John W. De Boskey writes: > > Hi, > > Console, console, where's the console? The SRM console is using a TGA video card as the console output device. TGA is not supported by syscons. So FreeBSD is forced to use the serial console instead... You can "fix" this by using just about any $10 pci vga card you happen to have laying around in place of the TGA card. Or hook up a 9600 8,n,1 connection to the 1st serial port and tell the srm to use it as a console (>>> set console serial) > > and dmesg: (Yes, the 1st 2 lines are from dmesg, and I cannot > find where they are coming from yet). > Unrecognized boot flag '0'. > Unrecognized boot flag ','. They're coming from the kernel, I think. You probably have 'boot_osflags' set to something like '0,a' in the srm console. Clear that variable, or set it to "a" and those messages will go away. > pci0: (vendor=0x1011, dev=0x0004) at 6.0 irq 32 FWIW, this is the TGA card. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message