From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 5 05:12:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA08798 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 05:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA08517 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 05:10:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02393; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:08:49 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199609051208.OAA02393@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: FreeBSD without console In-Reply-To: from John-Mark Gurney at "Sep 5, 96 04:08:24 am" To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:08:49 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > I've been able to use FreeBSD sucessfully even after having removed the > > video card and disabling the BIOS check for it. FSD probably just had no > > idea the video was missing although console data was still being sent to > > this 'screen'. > > I've come across a problem.... when I run without a video card and run > comconsole... it likes to panic when sc0 is enabled.. is this normal? > (oh and the panics just srcoll right off the screen.. if you would like I > could log them...) just wondering.. thanks for all the help.. > I have also found this. My solution is to mod the sc device probe to fail if the keyboard is not found. This will probably not work on all motherboard/keyboard controllers. I actually think the sc device should probe to see if there is a screen controller and fail the probe if it can't find one. At the moment it will never fail the probe. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za