From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 11:41:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA24320 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:41:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA24314 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from cenotaph.snafu.de (root@gw-deadnet.snafu.de [194.121.229.33]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id LAA28940 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:41:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by cenotaph.snafu.de id m0vIdcE-000ZnaC; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:35:42 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1) Message-Id: From: mickey@gw-deadnet.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel) Subject: Strange syscons behaviour in -current? To: current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:35:41 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13] 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 Hi! --- I today updated my second machine with -current by doing a make reinstall. I then compiled a new kernel and while rebooting found the following strange behaviour of syscons: While booting it shows up with the following: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 30 17:09:54 MET 1996 root@deadline.snafu.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/CENOTAPH Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i8254 clock: 1193194 Hz CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 8388608 (8192K bytes) avail memory = 6922240 (6760K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard But then nothing more happens on the console display, although the machine completes to boot (As I find rather fast) and everything seems to work fine. Only the console display remains unchanged still showing the above sc0 message. A dmesg on this machine shows the following: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 30 17:09:54 MET 1996 root@deadline.snafu.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/CENOTAPH Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i8254 clock: 1193194 Hz CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU) real memory = 8388608 (8192K bytes) avail memory = 6922240 (6760K bytes) Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA mono <4 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 15 on isa ed0: address 00:45:20:6e:97:a0, type NE2000 (16 bit) sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio0: type 16450 sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 9 on isa sio2: type 16550A sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 5 on isa sio3: type 16550A aha0 at 0x330-0x333 irq 12 drq 6 on isa (aha0:0:0): "FUJITSU M2624S-512 0202" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(aha0:0:0): Direct-Access 497MB (1018668 512 byte sectors) fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in npx0 on motherboard npx0: 387 emulator Same kernel compiled with PCVT instead of syscons does not do this, but causes me some other problems on this machine. The machine runs a Tseng ET4000 ISA graphics board with an IBM PS2 monochrome VGA display. Neither does my other machine which runs an ELSA Winner 1000 board on a Sony color graphics display show such a behaviour, nor did this machine with FreeBSD kernels before 06/25/96. Did someone else perhaps observe a similar behaviour? Are there any suggestions which could change this to working again? Any help appreciated. Regards, Mickey