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Subject: Re: keyboard locks up 950622-SNAP
To: jkh@freebsd.org (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 03:16:14 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <254.804140469@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 26, 95 05:21:09 am
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> 
> > Hardware is ASUS PVI-486AP4 motherboard - Aries chip set, 486-33
> > Intel, 16mb, a 1gb segate and a 200mb conner on onboard pci/ide,
> > logitech bus mouse, generic io card, sound-blaster 16 with panasonic

You didn't mention video card type.  Is it a PCI video card or a
VLB video card.  One needs to be carefull on this board if you
use the VLB card you can only use 1 PCI master.  If you don't
use the VLB slot you can use 2 PCI masters.

I also don't have enough context here to judge what the problem
was :-(.

> Hmmm.  Is the cache set to write-through rather than write-back with
> this motherboard?  I've heard that you don't want to run it in
> write-back mode due to some DMA conflict botches, though I may have
> the wrong motherboard in mind.

You have the wrong model motherboard.  The PVI-486AP4 has a working
write back cache.  It is the PCI/I-486SP3G that has the broken right
back cache (actually, you need a dirty cache ram chip and revision 1.8
or later of the board and the cache will do write back correctly).

> > BTW, about the install.  Why, if I gave the dos partition a mount
> > point in disklable, does sysinstall unmount it after loading the
> > various distributions you choose?  If you then go to install some
> 
> Hmmm.  It's being cute, but perhaps too much so..  I'll take the
> umount out..
> 
> > Want some interesting screen mumble jumble?  After the system is
> > up, try running sysinstall from the second screen.  :)
> 
> Ummm..  That's kind of an unexpected thing to do.. :-)  Perhaps I should
> put in a check to make sure only one's running at a time! :)
> 
> > If I install bin, then after the system is up go back and install
> > say, manpages, it still gives me a "remade all devices".
> 
> Hmmm..  Odd..  I'll go look.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback!
> 
> 					Jordan
> 


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