From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 9 23:21:32 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 3D76D37B5A3 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:21:29 -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 CAA11195 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:21:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:21:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freezing and rebooting with vidcontrol -m on In-Reply-To: <3941AD54.EE18AC13@camtech.net.au> 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 Okay, answering my own question for the sake of the archive, I believe it was an on combination of some of the options SC_something that vidcontrol -m on and my mouse and kernel didnt like. I was using some to save on kernel size and memory used but then decided to start using the computer on the console again so I just commented all those SC feature disabling out and all seems well. > >Adam wrote: >> >> 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message