kern/166262: [syscons] syscons issue on DN2800MT

[Frank Reppin]

The following reply was made to PR kern/166262; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Frank Reppin <frankreppin at googlemail.com>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/166262: [syscons] syscons issue on DN2800MT
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:21:54 +0100

 Hi,
 
 On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org> wrote:
 [...]
 > I am not so sure about that.  FYI, BTX uses BIOS int 10h calls and
 > kernel directly accesses VGA hardware and memory.
 I see - thank's for enlighten me ;)
 
 > Maybe you do not have the BIOS that I saw from YouTube
 > presentation. :-(
 No idea - I flashed the most 'recent' one (0151)  quite soon after
 receiving the board. The previous BIOS didn't had any other settings from
 what I remember.
 
 > Sorry, there is something strange going on with writing to video
 > memory.  That's all I can say ATM. :-/
 Well - nevermind then ;)
 The 'workaround' (as described in the initial PR) to get things
 working at the beginning is OK (for me at least...).
 
 Again - thanks for having a quick look into this.
 
 cheers,
 frank\