From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 30 9: 2: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f97.pav2.hotmail.com [64.4.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6718137B406 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicholsmi@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:01:51 -0700 Received: from 63.198.170.141 by pv2fd.pav2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:01:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.198.170.141] From: "Mike Nichols" To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Internal console doesn't work with SRM/FreeBSD Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:01:51 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jul 2001 16:01:51.0564 (UTC) FILETIME=[F22310C0:01C11910] Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message