willy tarreau <wtarreau@yahoo.fr> writes:
> > It seems to work fine.
> that's a good news.
>
> > I managed to get the manual mode work from the
> > console. It crashes
> > under X though (starts beeping forever...)
>
> if you get a single beep every 3 seconds or so,
> then it's not crashed, it's just working fine but
> you can't see anything because the VGA Bios has not
> correctly reset the video mode to color text mode (3).
> I suspect that the VGA bios may not be reinitialized
> before kmsgdump gets the control, I'll have to verify.
> Anyway, the beeps are there to tell you that kmsgdump
> is alive and that any action can be sent through the
> keyboard if you need.
No, it was completely frozen and beeping continuously. The keys had no
effect (at least a 'B' did not light up the floppy drive). It seemed
to be really stuck.
> > However, the automatic works under X, so I'm a happy
> > camper...
> >
> Ok, at least you helped me to make it behave a bit less badly :-)
>
> thanks for your tests
Willing to do more to fix the crash-in-X-in-manual-mode thing :-)
Phil.
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