From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 9 03:22:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA20533 for current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 03:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA20528 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 03:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA13440; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 12:21:49 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA02894; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 12:21:48 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id LAA10906; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:55:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611091055.LAA10906@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: syscons and mono VGA screens? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 11:55:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611091027.UAA00239@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 9, 96 08:57:17 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)