SUMMARY: Visual Bell

From: David Carlin (djc6@eecs.cwru.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 08 1999 - 04:14:21 CST


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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