From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 5:35:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (lesbains.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A810D37BE0A; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:35:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (brabantio [134.2.12.25]) by lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2C94AB; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:35:53 +0100 (NFT) Received: (from sperber@localhost) by informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25312; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:35:49 +0100 To: Mike Smith Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" , brent@kearneys.ca, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jfn@enteract.com Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting References: <200003170050.QAA00506@mass.cdrom.com> From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: 17 Mar 2000 14:35:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:50:24 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Iris) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith writes: Mike> This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with Mike> buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit. Mike> Feel free to check the (very simple) code in boot2 that performs keyboard Mike> detection, and if you've got any better ideas on how to make this work Mike> properly, we're all ears. 8) This is untrue, at least in general. It is a timing problem at least on some Athlon boards. On the MSI 6195, if you increase the timing parameters in probe_keyboard.c, the keyboard will get detected just fine. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message