From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 00:57:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19396 for current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:57:15 -0700 (PDT) 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 AAA19381 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:57:10 -0700 (PDT) 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 JAA10663; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:56:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA22333; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 09:56:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA16028; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 07:54:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608080554.HAA16028@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: boot screen flashes - why? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 07:54:58 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608061127.NAA09560@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at "Aug 6, 96 01:27:02 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > When booting my machine (Amd5x86, ASUS SP3G, ELSA Winner 1000 PCI) > The screen flashes (blanked out black) two times. Once right after > ther fdc/fd0 probe, second some time later - don't know exactly > where at the moment. Today it happened that (with a today's kernel) > during that screen flash the screen remained black and the machine > was frozen - had to power cycle. What is being probed right after fdc0 in your kernel? I've only seen flashes while the graphics console driver(s) touch the adapter. (The flash while probing syscons seems to last a little longer than that for pcvt.) The second flash is perhaps from loading a font down to the VGA? -- 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. ;-)