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From: "Aaron Dailey" <aarond@btc.adaptec.com>
To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:35:41 +0000
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Subject: Re: PS/Valuepoint and keyboard hang on install
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> Date:          Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:42:42 -0600
> From:          Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
> To:            Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> Cc:            aarond@btc.btc.adaptec.com, questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:       Re: PS/Valuepoint and keyboard hang on install

> > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 Release on an IBM  PS/Valuepoint
> > > > > 6384, and get a keyboard lock once everything boots.
> 
> > > I don't see a psm0 driver.  Once I get to visual, under input devices
> > > I have bus mouse (mse0) and syscons (sc0?).  This is on the 2.1
> > > release boot disk.  Am I missing something?
> > 
> > Argh.  You may need to get a boot disk from Nate Williams; is this
> > a PS/2 style keyboard interface?  Do you know if the keyboard starts
> > in mode 3?
> 
> If it does, you can try the ThinkPad boot floppy out, but that doesn't
> fix 'lockups'.  When you are in the wrong mode, it's pretty obvious as
> every key you touch doesn't do what you want it to do.  (But it *does*
> do something).
> 
> You could try 'bouncing on the num-lock' key during bootup to see if
> that helps.  If it does then we've still got the lurking bug, but
> generally speaking it goes away after you build a custom kernel.
> 
> 
> 
> Nate
> 
> 

An update of where I'm at . . . I've tried disabling L1 (on CPU) 
cache, to no avail.  I don't have L2 cache.  I already do have 8 MB 
of memory, so I don't think I'm running into memory constraints.

I have also tried pounding on the num lock key after the uncompress 
message in the boot disk, but also to no luck there either.

One thing I want to try is pulling out my DX4/100, and just running 
with the original SX/25, which would also run the whole VL BUS at 25 
MHZ.

Any other ideas?

Aaron Dailey