dmesg not working on new system

[Chris Howells]

On Monday 05 June 2006 19:08, Greg Barniskis wrote:

> Not new behavior. A dmesg on any of my running systems (4.x, 5.x)
> returns nothing after a time. You were just catching it before the
> buffer was flushed. I don't know what triggers that, and it is
> possible that the trigger/timing of it may have changed in 6.x (and
> as always, YMMV).

dmesg is not flushed here.

chris at legolas$ dmesg | head
Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Feb 20 18:31:41 GMT 2006
    root at legolas.devrandom.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LEGOLAS
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ (1808.81-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20fc2  Stepping = 2
  
Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  Features2=0x1<SSE3>
chris at legolas$ uptime
 7:57PM  up 92 days,  2:22, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
chris at legolas$ uname -a
FreeBSD legolas.devrandom.org.uk 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon 
Feb 20 18:31:41 GMT 2006     
root at legolas.devrandom.org.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LEGOLAS  i386


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