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From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2 Installation - Keyboard Problem
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My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who heard auto245751@hushmail.com say...
	I can't find your other post so forvive me if this is redundant.
When you boot into the system, can you use boot -c do so some config of the
hardware.  There are some flags you can add when specifying your keyboard.

bit 0 (FAIL_IF_NO_KBD) 0x01
bit 1 (NO_RESET) 0x02
bit 2 (ALT_SCANCODESET) 0x04

example, 
device atkbd0 at isa? tty irq 1 flags 0x03  # for NO_RESET

	Worth a shot.  My friend had a similar problem with a keyboard that
just wouldn't work on Caldera Linux, but worked with everything else.

Ian

> 
> At Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:11:11 +1000, "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >> The computer is an Acer Veriton 5100. The hardware is in excellent
> >condition.
> >>
> >many proprietory systems give weird problems like that ... my guess 
> >is that
> >deals done betwixt the hardware manufacturer & Microsoft resulted in
> >"optimization" for Windows operating systems :)
> >
> 
> Hi Douglas,
> 
> How exactly does your reply contribute to our goal of getting FreeBSD to 
> respond to my keyboard? 
> 
> If your conspiracy theory is correct, then Linux must also have a part in 
> the deal, because my keyboard works fine under various distributions of 
> it. As does OpenBSD. I am not antagonizing FreeBSD, however, because it 
> _is_ my favorite operating system. I just wish I could pass the installation 
> procedure.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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