From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 10 13:09:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C641065672 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@pingle.org) Received: from willow.pingle.org (willow.pingle.org [68.76.213.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEE98FC16 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by willow.pingle.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711C511427 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:09:11 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pingle.org Received: from willow.pingle.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (willow.pingle.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id joybCvh-9lV7 for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:09:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.10.10] (hpcw.hpcisp.com [68.76.213.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jim) by willow.pingle.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB3741141C for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:09:09 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B20F2ED.4010300@pingle.org> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:09:01 -0500 From: Jim Pingle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200912091728.15410.freebsd-stable@dino.sk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PCengines ALIX boot0sio serial input failes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:09:12 -0000 On 12/10/2009 2:32 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> Which ALIX board exactly? There are some differences (even various BIOSes). >> Any chance you have vga driver in kernel? TinyBIOS emulates VGA a bit, >> redirects output to serial port. If at the beginning you are trying both VGA >> and serial port, output is doubled. Similar behavior is observed on older >> WRAP boards, too. > > I have tried ALIX-1 and 2 > here is an example: > > PC Engines ALIX.3 v0.99h > 640 KB Base Memory > 261120 KB Extended Memory > Waiting for HDD ... > > 01F0 Master 848A SanDisk SDCFH2-002G > Phys C/H/S 3970/16/63 Log C/H/S 992/64/63 > > 1 FreeBSD > 2 FreeBSD > 3 FreeBSD > > 6 PXE > Boot: 1 > > any key I hit, it echoes as # and is ignored. > at this point the kernel is not yet involved, so having vga+kb support > is not the reason, though I will try out the alix-3, which has vga support, and > a different BIOS soon. A lot of users have seen that happen, but typically it has been cleared up by using ALIX BIOS v0.99h, which that box already appears to have, and setting the BIOS for CHS mode. I haven't tried any of the ALIX models with VGA, but I have heard they are working as long as you set the BIOS for APM power management. (See the previous -STABLE thread titled "8.0-rc2 dropped hardsupport". Jim