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From: Tim Wiess <tim@nop.cx>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] keyboard problems after aux/vga
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:10:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16f01c4117dabde9f35a84bafd15016b@akira.nop.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10611191751s22d0f2c3xfbfca49ecdc70d6e@mail.gmail.com>

>>     i've tried a variety of resolutions with the same results.
>>     i'll try X/vesa and see what happens....
>
> One thing that is very useful when debugging problems with vga etc. is
> to have a serial console. Any chance you can set this up?
>
> we hit this all the time with linuxbios; at some point, serial console
> will save your life.

    yeah, i did set that up recently. interesting thing is that input is also
    lost on the console when i start vga.

    X/vesa does indeed work on this machine. so i guess i'll have to
    start looking at the vesa specs.

    tim



  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-19 17:06 Tim Wiess
2006-11-19 17:45 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-19 19:05   ` Tim Wiess
2006-11-20  1:51     ` ron minnich
2006-11-20  3:10       ` Tim Wiess [this message]
2006-11-20  3:21         ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20  3:57           ` lucio
2006-11-27  4:09             ` Tim Wiess
2006-11-20  4:04           ` Tim Wiess

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