Visual Bell

2007-12-25 11:23:00

Never figured out the cause of this. The only replies I received were

mostly vacation / away messages :)

Thanks anyways!

-David

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David Carlin wrote:

> Hello,

> I'm trying to upgrade some of my Ultra 1 systems to Solaris 7

> (3/99) and have run into a strange problem. On some of the Ultra 1's

> I have upgraded the PROM to OpenBoot 3.11 and added the line:

> ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=true

> to the file /platform/sun4u/boot.conf. The problem I have is that once

> I've done the PROM upgrade when I logon to the console instead of a beep I

> get a visual bell. I've looked at the PROM settings, none of them seem to

> change when I do the PROM upgrade, and /etc/termcap doesn't change either.

> The visual bell only occurs during a console session, not with CDE or

> OpenWin. The problem does not occur on Ultra 1's that I have not

> performed the PROM upgrade on (so they're running the 32-bit kernel under

> Solaris 7).

> Any suggestions?

> Thanks!

> -David

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