From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 00:45:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470C216A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:45:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bcasavan@tdkt.org) Received: from yeppers.tdkt.org (skyline.tdkt.org [209.98.211.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EE143D48 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:45:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bcasavan@tdkt.org) Received: from chenjesu.americas.sgi.com (cfcafwp.sgi.com [192.48.179.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by yeppers.tdkt.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/erikj-OpenBSD) with ESMTP id j8E0jULc013728; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:45:35 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:45:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant X-X-Sender: bcasavan@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com To: Robert Faulds In-Reply-To: <331CA3AB8A236A488C92DEC289C7D04DFAAFC0@Deliverance.voxify.com> Message-ID: <20050913192140.P1023@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> References: <331CA3AB8A236A488C92DEC289C7D04DFAAFC0@Deliverance.voxify.com> Organization: "Angeltread Software Organization" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Garbled VGA text console X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Brent Casavant List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:45:41 -0000 On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Robert Faulds wrote: > Swap your mouse and keyboard. It appears you have them plugged in > backwards. Unfortunately that's not the case. I even humored my imagination (i.e. maybe the chassis is mislabeled) and intentionally reversed them, to no avail. As stated in the first message, a mouse isn't even necessary in order to observe this problem. Thinking it might be an SMP problem, I disabled all but one processor (kern.smp.maxcpus=1, kern.smp.active=0, kern.smp.disabled=1). The garbled console continued. So I put that back, and thought to myself "Maybe it's picking up the wrong video card, somewhat". Tried hint.vga.0.at="pci", to try to pick up the PCI VGA controller instead of the onboard one that appears on isa0, but that also had no effect. I'm not above looking into this myself. Any idea whether it would be best to start my hunt in /usr/src/dev/fb/* as opposed to /usr/src/dev/syscons/* ? Thanks, Brent Casavant -- Brent Casavant Dance like everybody should be watching. www.angeltread.org KD5EMB, EN34lv