From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 14:45:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA08448 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:45:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08408 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 14:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA12362; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:43:28 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA26630; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:43:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA15198; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:39:59 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512112239.XAA15198@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.1R+PCVT+Xfree on Thinkpad To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:39:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr, questions@freebsd.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512112107.OAA07237@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Dec 11, 95 02:07:16 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > > I'm *pretty* sure it's true, although it's a pain in the butt. However, > both Linux and NetBSD can use X on ThinkPads, so I'm unsure why it > doesn't work. I'm afraid that recent Thinkpads have been entirely dropping scan set I. Of course, this is speculative only -- i don't own one. Playing with kbdio(8) might get it clearer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)