Re: Polling loop good here??? ... I'm displaying video converted to a series of 256 color images. ... In text mode you can redefine font characters, change colors to anything, plus it uses 8-pixel wide fonts, instead of the standard 9-pixel wide VGA text mode, so ANSI-type graphics look really nice since characters like DOS's 176, 177 and 178 won't have that vertical space between them. ... If your stdin and stdout aren't pointing to a console TTY device, then you abort because you might be running in an xterm or over telnet or something. ... All this does is tell the kernel that when your console is active, it's not allowed to touch the VGA. ... (alt.lang.asm)
Re: printing boot probe messages ... a working/used console.... console messages are going to dcons.... you appear to have some settings in your kernel configuration... (freebsd-hackers)
Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4 ... and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series... problems that occasionally result in filesystem corruption.... I'll just get a warning message printed to the console:...software configuration issue rather than a hardware problem. ... (Debian-User)
Re: Linux stuck when serial cable is disconnected ... I am running on a MIPS machine, with my kernel and debian distribution ...connection, i.e. serial console.... then the bootloader configuration line in grub.conf would read the kernel parameter as ... (comp.os.linux.networking)
Re: Linux stuck when serial cable is disconnected ... I am running on a MIPS machine, with my kernel and debian distribution ...connection, i.e. serial console.... then the bootloader configuration line in grub.conf would read the kernel parameter as ... (comp.os.linux.networking)
