From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 11 10:16:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA20855 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:16:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA20762; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA28880; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:15:03 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199801111815.SAA28880@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Mikael Karpberg cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird syscons errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:20:32 +0100." <199801111720.SAA05066@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:15:03 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Hi! > > After having built the world and kernel from something like midnight > yesterday (CET) I have this weird problem that I didn't have with a kernel > from late december. Anyone else seen this? I have noticed syscons changes > lately, and I'm wondering if they screwed anything up. > > What happens is that after the probe messages have come up, I get no more > output. The computer continues to boot to full multiuser mode, and I can > log in, but I have to do it "blindly". There seems to be no way to the > console into displaying anything except those frozen boot messages. > If I log in and and vidconrol "VGA_80x50", for example, the mode _does_ > change, but the text doesn't. And I can switch vtys, but without any real > significant change. Only way I could tell that switching vtys worked was > because I had one vty in VGA_80x50 mode. If I start X11, it will switch > to graphic mode just fine, and run in X11. Then when I exit X11, I get > the same crap again. > > So... What's wrong? Anyone else seen this? Yep. Go to /sys/net/i386/isa/syscons.c 1.242 and the problem will go away. > /Mikael -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....