From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 22 00:07:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA23456 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 00:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [198.81.209.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA23449 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 00:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA00410; Wed, 22 May 1996 00:09:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: hamby1.lightside.net: jehamby owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:09:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@hamby1 To: Michael Smith cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bad keyboard reset routine? In-Reply-To: <199605220517.OAA02201@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 May 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > Thanks for reminding me.. I also meant to mention that I've been > > > getting: > > > > > > scprobe: keyboard RESET failed (result = 0xfa) > > > > Interesting. :-) > > > > I vote for killing scprobe()'s keyboard reset attempt entirely. It's > > of no real use. > > Given that it will have reset on power-up, and the BIOS will have reset > it again at least twice. It might be nice to make it an option depending > on a 'flags' setting just in case someone needs it. I too get that message. Good to hear that it's not serious. In which case it should not be printed as a "failure". Reminds me of an unusual bug in Solaris/x86 2.5 on my system where whenever you "touch /reconfigure" and reboot (or equivalently, "boot -r" which rebuilds the /dev directory and reprobes the hardware), the keyboard is completely frozen. The first few times I needed to do this, I just waited till the disk activity stopped then punched the Reset button! Finally I realized if you unplugged and replugged the keyboard cable it came back to life. Odd! :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Jake Hamby| Ask me about Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, The Tick, Motif, or NT, eh?| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Hi, can I interest you in buying some meat over the phone?" -Lotus commercial