From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 4 21:30:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA13386 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from trapdoor.aracnet.com (root@trapdoor.aracnet.com [204.188.47.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA13381 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from eris.beattie.aracnet.com (ppp-r3.aracnet.com [205.238.13.5]) by trapdoor.aracnet.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA26008; Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:30:32 -0800 Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie X-Sender: beattie@eris.beattie.aracnet.com To: Nate Williams cc: mobile@freebsd.org, Kazutaka YOKOTA Subject: Re: Tecra 730 In-Reply-To: <199701041738.KAA13870@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > Both syscons and the PS/2 driver are *very* new under -BETA. > > > The keyboard still locks up under X + fvwm-1.24r, restarting the X > > server brings the keyboard back. > > *sigh* I suspect you could switch to another virtual terminal and do the > same thing, but w/out a keyboard it's kinda hard. :( > Hmmm, maybe I can think up some way to trigger the switch from a mouse action, anybody know of a way to cause the switch from user space? I could write a program. > > I will try another window manager > > but any hints. clues, suggestions would help. Also any hints on how > > to get the ps/2 mouse driver to work without causing the keyboard to > > stop working would be usefull. > > Kazutaka is the new expert in the PS/2 & keyboard area, so I've Cc'd him > with this. He's got a new driver for me to try out, but due to time > constraints and the holidays I haven't done anything with it. I *just* > got my hands free for a little time this morning, so as soon as I finish > up email I'm going to install and test it on my box. > I'd be glad to be a test subject, I'm fairly confortable messing around in the kernel, especially if I know what area to look at. > > The 3c589c-combo. > > > > It is brand new.. I have used it under win95 with both the UTP and > > BNC, at least once trying the BNC under FreeBSD immediately using the > > BNC under win95. I have tried using the 3com utility to set the > > connector type both under win95 and msdos 6.0. I will try again but > > and suggestions gratefully accepted. > > You've already tried messing with the link flags, correct? Try messing > with the link2 flag as well. > I have tried various combinations but I'll give it another go. Brian Beattie | From an MIT job ad "Applicants must also have http://www.aracnet.com/~beattie | extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they beattie@aracnet.com | should have sufficently good programming taste Fax (503)331-8186 | to not consider this an achievement." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMs87SlQwtztGaITFAQFqqgP8DRFq+hp3BP8fW0gatV63qjXlChEpSRRg gEAxs9a1H1DB50nF/V5UKmBdZpRnnp9GXDu2/uKgegxpz2/JwOg0H2kvD56gPPrb OZSg04NtcX/2v1Ao+swT7ra2gJykTTb2+TP6g1ahfg0EvTsRoSdhVyAyuav/Xlj4 PzUgC6cyIJg= =9x3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----