From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 16: 7:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A856115853; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:07:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA07957; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:07:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA49979; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:07:59 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001280007.RAA49979@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Cc: Brian Beattie , Bill Fenner , rcarter@pinyon.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:14:48 PST." <200001280014.QAA03163@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200001280014.QAA03163@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:07:59 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200001280014.QAA03163@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : > In message <200001272329.PAA02514@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : > : It doesn't do anything to the keyboard, it just calls the BIOS to find : > : out whether keys have been pressed. : > : > I've been seeing the hit twice fast problem for months. : : It's always been a problem; we don't understand the mechanics of it : however. Susceptibility varies widely between systems, and the best : hypothesis I've been able to come up with is that there are issues with : taking interrupts in vm86 mode; possibly the BIOS is being re-entered in : a fashion it doesn't like. Just wanted to make sure you acknowledged the problem. It sounded like you were saying that it wasn't a problem at all rather than the theory put forward wasn't likely the problem. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message