Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:01:51 +0000 From: "Mike Nichols" <nicholsmi@hotmail.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Internal console doesn't work with SRM/FreeBSD Message-ID: <F97TgHwu3P7cQE5hsFU00008b4b@hotmail.com>
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I have an old AlphaStation 400 that I'm trying to get FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE
running on. As long as I use the serial console, everything works
beautifully. But I can't for the life of me get the internal console to
work with SRM and/or FreeBSD! If I switch to the ARC console ("set os_type
nt" and power-cycle), the menus come up on the monitor as expected. But
trying to set SRM to use the monitor ("set console graphics" and "init")
doesn't work. The monitor just shows "out of scan range". The keyboard
works (I can do "set console serial" and "init" on the keyboard and it'll
come back on the serial console again), but nothing shows up on the monitor.
Furthermore, when I boot, regardless of whether the "console" env var is set
to serial or graphics, sc0 is NOT detected. I don't really need the SRM on
the monitor, but I'd like to be able to use the keyboard/monitor to log in
and stuff.
So, to recap: serial console workos fine. This is not a problem with the
video card or monitor since ARC works fine. SRM can take input from the
keyboard, but will not display anything on the monitor (monitor shows "out
of scan range"). "set console graphics" doesn't help.
If anybody can shed any light on this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.
Mike Nichols
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