Subject: Re: garbled console/lockup
To: None <efoo@crl.dec.com, port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/23/1999 13:51:31
> From: Edwin Foo <efoo@crl.dec.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed NetBSD/alpha on a AlphaPC164SX yesterday. The installation
> seemed to go fine except that I noticed strange console garbage at times. It
> seems most aggravated when I am using more/less, etc.
>
> Anyways, it was late, so I went to bed. This morning, I logged in as root to
> take a look around, and while I was 'less'ing /var/log/messages, the screen
> started getting garbled again. I suppose it can be best described as a
> random transposition/substitution of characters with other characters on
> that line or surrounding lines. After back-paging through 3-4 screens, the
> machine just locked up. I mean locked as in no response to keyboard input,
> ping, telnet, etc. A hard reset restored it to working order.
>
> I remember hearing about how wscons has been changed significantly lately. I
> don't see any open PR reports with these symptoms, but I wonder if it could
> be my hardware. Has anyone else seen this?
Is this reproducible? If it is, please try the following patch:
save mail message to tgapatch.gz.uue
uudecode tgapatch.gz.uue
gzip -d tgapatch.gz
patch /sys/dev/pci/tga.c tgapatch
Ross.Harvey@Computer.Org
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