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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 09:21:08 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: Weird syscons errors 
Message-ID:  <199801120021.JAA29829@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 18:20:32 %2B0100." <199801111720.SAA05066@ocean.campus.luth.se> 
References:  <199801111720.SAA05066@ocean.campus.luth.se> 

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>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.

The recent change to syscons is addtion of dead key support in
syscons.c v1.243 and 1.244. The code has been running OK, here

Which keymap do you load upon boot? I made kbdcontrol to accept both
formats of keymaps: old format without dead keys and new format with
dead keys. It looks working here, but I may have screwed up things...

Apply the following patch to revert /sys/i386/isa/syscons.c to v1.242
which doesn't include the dead key support, and see if it works.

Kazu

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