On 2010-Jul-07 14:22:22 -0400, "Mikhail T." <mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: >In no particular order: > > 1. > A picture, that one of the systems was displaying at boot (and > then used as a screen-saver), stopped showing properly. The > colors are right, but the picture is distorted beyond recognition. > The relevant part of loader.conf is: > > splash_pcx_load="YES" > vesa_load="YES" > bitmap_load="YES" > bitmap_name="/boot/187426-9-quokka-dreaming.pcx"
It's a bit difficult to provide any useful input without some idea of what the picture should and does look like. Can you please post the actual bitmap as well as a picture of your screen showing the problem. > 3. > Likewise, having "device ugen" breaks config(8) -- another > undocumented incompatibility. Can you please advise where it is documented that "device ugen" is valid in a FreeBSD-8 config file? > 5. > One of the upgraded systems would repeatedly hang at boot, until I > disabled the on-board firewire-device through the BIOS... It was > not a problem under 7.x, although I don't know, whether the device > actually worked. I haven't seen this on any of my systems. Can you please provide details of your motherboard, BIOS and the output from a verbose boot up to the hang. Is there a BIOS update available and have you tried installing it? > 6. > Despite the reported improvements in the USB area, my USB keyboard > /still/ does not work during boot. It during POST and then after > the booting is complete. But in single-user mode -- no... Had to > fish-out the PS2 keyboard... I have had similar problems on one of my USB-only desktops. In my case, moving the keyboard to a different USB port solved the problem. All I can suggest is to work your way through all the USB ports you have available and see if they all behavee the same. -- Peter Jeremy
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