configuring syscons: blanktime

Hi

When I start FreeBSD a message appears saying: "configuring syscons: blanktime" and system freezes or abot 2 minutes! whats the problem?

It's definitively not the screen blank time.

Looking at /etc/rc.syscons, the next thing after setting the blanktime (I am looking at a 4.8 now) is the mouse driver. I guess your mouse doesn't work either? Start /stand/sysinstall and configure it correctly, then the delay should be gone too. If not, post back. I have got some more ideas.

hth,
M.

My mouse works just fine. I ahave a notebook with an external usb mouse. both of them work fine. may be there is something else

Does your mouse work on the console too?
And which version of FreeBSD are you using?

M.

Yes bith of them work fine on console. I use 5.3 beta2.

The 5 versions work completely different from the 4 versions. But I am not into using "betas", so I don't have any system like that around for looking up how it works there.

You can see yourself how the boot process works. iirc they introduced System V Runlevels with FreeBSD 5.0, so you would have to check the start order of the services in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (replace the 5 with your standard runlevel). The one after "syscons" is our best candidate.

Finally...
When using a beta, some things just don't work. It's a beta, not a release. Did check the bugs database?

M.

The reason I used 5.3 beta is that I couldent install my Ethernet card under 4.x or 5.1. I know there may be some problems with beta version but fourunately I havent faced anything yet!!! May be this is the one! Is there anyway I can install my ethernet under 5.1? If there is please help me with that

Sorry, all 5 versions are beta right now. 5.3R will be the first stable release, coming in a few days. RELENG_5 has been frozen, but there is quite some work still in progress:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...dmap/index.html

Upgrade your kernel and base system (see handbook) to RELENG_5, maybe it works then. If not, do this again after 5.3R has been released.

On the other hand, there is some more things you can check in advance:
Delays during bootup are often caused by non-resolvable IPs or hostnames. If you are not running a local DNS server in your LAN, check your /etc/hosts and put all hosts there which you mentioned otherwhere.
Example 1:
You have put your provider's DNS servers into /etc/resolv.conf
You should put line similar to these into /etc/hosts:

Example 2:
You have set your hostname to "server.localnet"
Your /etc/hosts needs this (assuming your IP is 192.168.1.1):

There must be at least one more entry, the localhost:

hth,
M.

Thank you for your comprehensive guide.

So... Now I'm facing some unstability problem with my 5.3! and I'm going to install 4.x. I've installed it before but as with 5.1 that I told you I have some problems with my ethernet card(Intel pro/100 VE). What sould I do? The other thing Is I unploged my second mouse but still have problem and there is no problem with IPs. the delay is after checking for IP. before Linux dest. I think 5.3's Xorg needs many improvments because it's very unstable!!!

Another question....
Is there any chance to use my winmodem(Conexant AC-LINK) in freeBSD?