Date: 17 Mar 2000 14:35:49 +0100 From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>, brent@kearneys.ca, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jfn@enteract.com Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting Message-ID: <y9l7lf13eiy.fsf@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:50:24 -0800" References: <200003170050.QAA00506@mass.cdrom.com>
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: Mike> This has nothing to do with Athlon processors and everything to do with Mike> buggy BIOS code that doesn't set the "extended keyboard present" bit. Mike> Feel free to check the (very simple) code in boot2 that performs keyboard Mike> detection, and if you've got any better ideas on how to make this work Mike> properly, we're all ears. 8) This is untrue, at least in general. It is a timing problem at least on some Athlon boards. On the MSI 6195, if you increase the timing parameters in probe_keyboard.c, the keyboard will get detected just fine. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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