From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 2:14:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bluebottle.calcaphon.com (calcaphon.demon.co.uk [193.237.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B14037B50E; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from henny.webweaving.org (dhcp36.calcaphon.com [10.0.1.36]) by bluebottle.calcaphon.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA82531; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:12:24 GMT (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by henny.webweaving.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01582; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:04:27 GMT (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:04:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: John Daniels Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-qa@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instrallation floppies and USB In-Reply-To: <20000301202824.52769.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Just a quick response, some things to try will follow this evening.] > Configuration Table [Disabled] > PCI IRQ setting [Auto] > PCI IRQ sharing [No] should be Yes. > Plug and Play OS [Yes] Should be No. > I thought that PCI IRQ sharing might allow for dynamic assignment of IRQs, > but changing this to 'Yes' had no effect. It should be on anyway. FreeBSD supports. In the future you might add more hardware which makes you run out of IRQs > I thought that Reset Resource Assignments might enable the OS to set > resouces (IRQ, etc) but everytime I looked at this after I had chosen 'Yes,' > it had been set back to 'No.' Acer support tells me that all this does is > reset the resources back to their original values. You'll see a message saying 'Updating ESCD...' etc. > 1. When I try to boot the kern.flp disk, I get the message: > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no > Booting continues but the keyboard is unusable unless I immmediately hit the > space bar then type '-Dh' at the 'boot:' prompt as described in the > TROUBLE.TXT document in the -CURRENT snapshot directory. NOTE: That > document says that the '-Dh' workaround is meant for older systems with an > 84-key keyboard, but it is working for my 1999 Acer Asprire with a 102-key > USB keyboard! That means the BIOS emulates a XT/AT style keyboard. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message