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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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