I don't know if this is related but I just upgraded my 3.99.11 system  
up to 3.99.21 kernel and virtual terminals stopped working. Starting  
X.org 6.9 from pkgsrc doesn't work either. It starts loading and then  
gets stuck in text mode waiting on "wswait" wait channel. A back  
trace indicates that we're sitting at "mpidle" before entering  
getting the ddb keyboard sequence. Not sure if this is time counters  
related or not.


On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Christian Hattemer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've played with -current as of monday (IIRC) and 3.0_STABLE inside  
> qemu.
> There are a number of oddities that I'd like to have commented.  
> They aren't
> really problems for me, but it would be nice to have them resolved.
>
> qemu is as installed from pkgsrc, host is 3.0_STABLE.
>
> When using a boot loader configured to com0 as console -current  
> shows only
> the first two cpu0 lines on qemu's serial console screen, the full  
> info
> appears only when using the bios console. dmesg is complete. With  
> 3.0 I see
> the full info also on the serial console.
>
>
> In addition to the serial console 3.0 would still give me a login  
> on the
> bios console using ttyE0 if VGA is present. It is with qemu.  
> However on
> -current wsdisplay and friends still appear in dmesg, but ttyE0 is not
> configured. If I change the boot loader back to bios console it's  
> working
> again.
>
> This is a bit annoying since qemu's serial console sucks somewhat  
> and can't
> run vi or use cursor keys. At least AFAIK, since I started only  
> recently to
> use qemu. But for qemu I could still go back to the non-serial boot  
> loader.
>
>
> -current crashes sometimes, seems to happen when I use qemu's  
> scrollback
> function of the console screen or switch screens. This is with the  
> serial
> boot loader. getty just complained that ttyE0 isn't configured.   
> But I'm
> not really sure about all this and can't be more precise at the  
> moment. The
> message is:
> kernel: supervisor trap page fault, code=0
> Stopped at      netbsd:wsdisplay_scroll+0x35   movl   0(%eax),%eax
>
> I didn't notice this with 3.0.
>
>
> The last thing I noticed it that when changing from qemu's serial  
> console or
> monitor screen to the VGA display with Ctrl-Alt-1 a stream of '1'  
> appears
> until another key is pressed. This is probably a qemu bug. It  
> happens with
> both versions.
>
> Bye, Chris
>
>
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