Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:43:46 +0100 From: pp@pp.dyndns.biz To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing all ttyv* device nodes after upgrade 7.0 -> 7.2 Message-ID: <4B5740D2.9030809@pp.dyndns.biz> In-Reply-To: <4B5721B5.50302@pp.dyndns.biz> References: <4B561717.9090309@pp.dyndns.biz> <4B561A81.6010400@pp.dyndns.biz> <4B5620E9.6040902@pp.dyndns.biz> <hj5iqn$b4l$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B56C2EC.4070609@pp.dyndns.biz> <hj741p$ccq$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B5721B5.50302@pp.dyndns.biz>
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Morgan Wesström wrote: > Michael Powell wrote: >>> agp0: <Intel 82865 host to AGP bridge> on hostb0 >>> agp0: allocating GATT for aperture of size 128M >>> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem >>> 0xf8000000-0xf8ffffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xf9000000-0xf9ffffff irq 3 >>> at device 0.0 on pci1 >> This is an odd IRQ for a video card to come up on, as this is usually >> reserved for one of the COMM ports. Maybe an IRQ conflict here. > > I noticed that too :-) > >> Below is a snippet from mine. You didn't remove device vga from the kernel >> by any chance? Switching back to GENERIC for a test is probably a good idea >> as it may remove a variable from the problem. > > No, all of syscons dependencies (according to the man page) are still there. > >> Funny thing is it worked in 7.0 previously? At first glance this smells like >> BIOS PnP probing problems, but I think if it were it would have showed >> itself before. Try GENERIC and see what happens. If it goes away you know >> where to look. > Turned out the graphics adapter had died when he got to the computer. Case closed and kudos to FreeBSD for still running all other services without complaining. :-) /Morgan
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