From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 12 12:17:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA18847 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:17:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA18841 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA04505; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:17:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:17:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Terry Todd cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.6 on Tecra 720 In-Reply-To: <199701120146.TAA06759@skognet.skognet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Terry Todd wrote: > I have 2.1.6.1 running on a Tecra 720. When I boot up the system > sometimes sio1 (built-in modem) comes up OK and sometimes it > doesn't get probed and comes up "disabled, not probed". > Anybody run into this before? It's unusual that it would be disabled some times and not others. The diabled message is controlled through UserConfig ('-c') and by the 'disabled' keyword in the kernel config. This IS an inernal modem, so you never know what you're going to get. > Also the screen blanks after some period of time and will not > come back to life until it is re-booted. Any clues? A friend of mine has the same problem on his older Satellite. He has to suspend and restore the machine for the screen to come back. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major