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From: bsd@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Brian de Alwis)
Subject: Re: bad crashes w/ 386bsd
Message-ID: <1993Feb24.030305.22463@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM>
Reply-To: bsd@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Brian de Alwis)
Organization: I P Sharp Associates, Toronto
References: <8fVlfba00WBME6YGZo@andrew.cmu.edu> <1m8m42$g7v@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 03:03:05 GMT
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In article <1m8m42$g7v@wzv.win.tue.nl> guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:
>As of patchkit 0.2, some interface in the kernel changed. Maybe syscons
>also needs some patches for that? Maybe you should just try it once
>with the original pccons driver....if that works you'll need some patches.
One nasty problem I noticed with syscons and pk-0.2.1 occurs when configuring
ddb - dbsym needs to be run on the new kernel before booting. Otherwise,
ddb printf "DDB: No symbols" err msg causes all further console output to
disappear -- the system runs with no problems, you just can't see anything.
Running dbsym on the kernel makes these problems disappear, since the
ddb symbols will be added to the kernel. I'm not sure what causes the
problems (yet).
BTW: has anyone successfully run sc-6.21 on 386bsd? I got it together
last-night, but something is wrong with curses somewhere---I get a bunch
of little happy faces in every cell I visit, and sc freezes when
resuming the foreground after suspending the process.
--
Brian de Alwis -- bsd@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com
bsdealwi@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca