From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 8 22:33:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4347937B669 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 22:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA99225 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 01:33:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 01:33:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: current@freebsd.org Subject: freezing and rebooting with vidcontrol -m on Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I don't really know where to go with this issue on my own anymore so im tossing it to the list for suggestions. I had a celeron running in a Abit BX6-2 system running -current approx a month or 1.5 old. Today I moved the disks to a Abit BP6 Motherboard and recompiled the kernel for smp and the other hardware changes I intended to make. Well, when I boot it up it would get down to approx "starting i386 whatever" and the boot would stop, the keyboard wouldnt type (although numlock would work for x amount of time) and you couldnt drop into ddb. Sometimes it would stick in this braindead mode, sometimes if you tried typing things to get it unstuck it would just reboot after a brief total keyboard lockup. No panic, just a reboot. I booted singleuser and cleaned up my rc.conf, disabling some noncritical things, and got the system booting fine. I have a usb logitech mouse by the way. Later I noticed no mouse cursor on my consoles even though I had moused running, so I ran vidcontrol -m on. WHAM. I had found the culprit. Okay so I know what caused it and what not to run ;0 I took the opportunity to cvsup and upgrade the whole system to -current as of today, and to my dismay it still does the same thing. I really wish I could drop into ddb when it happens but it wont let me. If serial might be a better option I could probably dig out a null modem cable... Suggestions Please! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message