Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:55:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Subject: Re: syscons and mono VGA screens? Message-ID: <199611091055.LAA10906@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611091027.UAA00239@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 9, 96 08:57:17 pm"
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As Michael Smith wrote: > There's an annoying 'feature' now though; I have to leave the (mono VGA) > monitor unplugged until after syscons has finished probing. Otherwise, > it gets as far as the autoconf line for syscons : > > sc0 at 0x60-... > > and no further. The system still boots OK, and everything else works, but > the screen is frozen. It's not frozen, but it writes to a piece of memory that is not displayed... I thought this has been fixed long since. Søren, any last-minute fix for it? (Though i'll be away from any 2.2 release work after tomorrow noon MET.) > (There's also an annoying delay when adding the default route, despite my > adding '-n' to the 'route add' line in netstart. The machine has two > ethernets, and resolves via a local nameserver, so I can only guess that > -n is not having the desired effect.) -n does only have an effect on reverse lookups to translate addresses into names when printing. You gotta explicit use numerical addresses in your case -- how else should the names translate into addresses otherwise? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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