Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:55:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: boot screen flashes - why? Message-ID: <199608081055.MAA18156@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199608080554.HAA16028@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 8, 96 07:54:58 am"
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> 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? Hmm - no I don't load other fonts - I tried it today with a new kernel and now I'm only seeing one flash right during the vga probe which seems to make sense. So what. > > -- > 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. ;-) > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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