From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 10 06:48:37 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA09202 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 06:48:37 -0700 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA09196 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 06:48:33 -0700 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA00984; Mon, 10 Jul 1995 14:48:07 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 14:48:05 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with 2.0.5-R and IBM PS/NOTE? In-Reply-To: <199507101219.IAA01062@lakes> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 10 Jul 1995, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > I just tried to upgrade a 1.1.5 IBM PS/NOTE to 2.0.5-R. Most > everything went fine (thank goodness for the "holographic shell"), > except that the psm driver still suffers the same problem it > had in 1.1.5. > > That is, when I enable the psm driver, and it does its probe to > determine there is a PS/2 mouse; I wind up with a locked-down > keyboard. If I don't do the probe (disable it with boot -c), > everything works just fine. > > This tends to point to the psm probe routine as being the culprit > that locks down the keyboard... any ideas? Try defining PSM_NO_RESET in your kernel config file. This is reported to fix this kind of psm probing problem. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939