Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:44:46 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ANDRSN@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (Annelise Anderson) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Few Questions Re: 2.1 Message-ID: <199601020514.PAA03619@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <01HZIBJ6BPIQ009B4T@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> from "Annelise Anderson" at Jan 1, 96 08:15:27 pm
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Annelise Anderson stands accused of saying: > 1) The mouse. The mouse is a bus mouse that plugs into an ATI > Mach 32 Graphics Ultra Pro card. Start-up messages include > mse0 at 0x23c irq 5 on isa. I've tried various mouse protocols > in XF86Config (MouseMan, Busmouse, Microsoft). /dev/mouse is > linked to mse0. I'm not sure this mouse is really using irq 5; > IRQ 5 is used, I think, by the sound-blaster emulation part of > the ProAudio Spectrum card. I tried booting with kernel -c and > putting mse0 on irq 4. Then I get a message that mse0 is not Use userconfig to change the kernel settings to match the device settings. It can't work the other way around. > 2) The computer hangs up if I try to get a listing of configured > devices with lsdev and at some other odd times. Yecch. That's not so good; what "other odd times"? > 3) The computer does not reboot with /sbin/shutdown -r now. It > syncs disks and hangs, requiring a hard reboot. This sounds like a nonconformant keyboard controller, and is a problem with a lot of PCI 486 systems and some others 8( > 4) When I try to mount the floppy drives (/sbin/mount -t msdos > /dev/fd0 /mnt) I get a message that the device is not configured. /dev/fd0a is what you want. > Annelise -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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