Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:42:54 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syscons VTY switch panic... Message-ID: <3B83384E.1010604@yahoo.com> References: <3B820F12.7050209@yahoo.com> <200108220350.MAA03898@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Actually, I have tried to get the VESA splash thing going, but never can get anything to display... I can try removing that... I believe it is still set up this way... What are the limitations on image size and color-depth for the boot splash thing? Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > Do you by any chance use a VESA mode in text vtys? > > The vesa module in -CURRENT has problems now. If you try to > set the VESA_800x600 mode in syscons, you will likely to > hang your machine. This is a known problem, and is somewhat > related to vm86 and context switching. I am afraid there is > no immediate fix for it. > > Kazu > > >>I am getting this with regularity now. >> >>The one time I was available to see the panic, I forgot to go into the debugge >>r and do a traceback, but it had something to do with >>a mwrite, and had a line concerning [maybe a buffer is....?]... >> >>I know this isn't much to go on, but that's what I have. I'll get more info w >>hen I feel like wasting ten or fifteen minutes for a >>double-reboot... [is it necessary to do the `shutdown -r now` to write a new >>entropy, or can we just keep going if it boots without >>the proper entropy?]... >> >>I have pretty much isolated this to VTY switching via syscons. Occasionally, >>it will leave the system speaker in a constant tone >>until it reboots. This is very noticable then X exits. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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