Subject: Re: Wscons on i386 EGA/CGA
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@stockly.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/04/1999 12:03:39
NetBSD 1.4.1 (GENERIC) #1: Tue Aug 10 00:03:09 MEST 1999
    fvdl@struis:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: family 4 model 9 step 4
cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86 W/B 150 (486-class)
real mem  = 20578304
avail mem = 15523840
using 276 buffers containing 1130496 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
isa0 at mainbus0
ep0 at isa0 port 0x300-0x30f irq 10: 3Com 3C509 Ethernet
ep0: address 00:20:af:40:98:ce, 8KB byte-wide FIFO, 5:3 Rx:Tx split
ep0: 10baseT, 10base5 (default 10baseT)
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 90845D4>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 8063MB, 4092 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 16514064 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
opmsprobe: command error
pcdisplay0 at isa0 port 0x3d0-0x3df iomem 0xb8000-0xbffff
wsdisplay0 at pcdisplay0: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask 4040 netmask 4440 ttymask 4442
wscons: wskbd0 glued to wsdisplay0 (console)
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs

>Grant Stockly writes:
>> >On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:43:32AM -0900, Grant Stockly wrote:
>> >> I tried to get WSCONS to work and all it did was tell me there wasn't
>> >> enough memory.  Is this because I'm using an ega/vga card?
>> >
>> >Could you give more details ? Hardware, RAM, ... ?
>>
>> 120MHz AMD 486 DX
>> 20MB RAM
>> 8GB hard drive
>>
>> packard# wsconscfg -t 80x25 -e vt100 1
>> wsconscfg: WSDISPLAYIO_ADDSCREEN: Cannot allocate memory
>
>Could you forward the output of 'dmesg' also?
>
>-Andrew
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