Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:41:21 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Console problems on alpha with -current Message-ID: <XFMail.000829214121.jdp@polstra.com>
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I am trying to upgrade my Alpha system from May 30's -current to
today's. I went through the rigaramole of creating an appropriate
/boot/device.hints file, etc. The new kernel works OK, except the
console gets strange right around the time this message comes out:
sc0: <System console> on isa0
At that point it switches back to the SRM-style white-on-blue from the
normal white-on-black color scheme, and it loses the remaining lines
of probes on the display. If I press Enter at that point, it scrolls
up with white-on-black letters entering from the bottom of the screen,
and I can type on it OK. But there is a rapidly flashing cursor in
the lower left-hand corner of the screen which won't go away. This is
in addition to the regular cursor which seems to work normally.
I compared the dmesg output from my old working kernel with this new
one, and these are the only significant differences:
24a25
> cia0: <2117x Core Logic chipset>
57c58
< sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
---
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
Thinking the "flags=0x200" might be the issue, I added this to
/boot/device.hints:
hint.sc.0.flags="0x200"
It didn't make any difference.
Have any of you seen this problem?
John
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