From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 04:12:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A43416A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 04:12:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrangled@verizon.net) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AD643D5D for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 04:12:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrangled@verizon.net) Received: from [192.168.0.29] ([68.236.212.14]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IR000FU3BOR4YY7@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:12:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:12:25 -0500 From: wrangled In-reply-to: <2fd864e0512040303n2c04a543y8112d685c9fcdc19@mail.gmail.com> To: Astrodog Message-id: <4393BE29.9060203@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <43913E86.3080409@verizon.net> <20051203225031.4f776e5d.lists@yazzy.org> <2fd864e0512031642u5c09128cr32af37f4b3cf9a07@mail.gmail.com> <4392495B.9040307@verizon.net> <2fd864e0512040303n2c04a543y8112d685c9fcdc19@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Cc: Marcin Jessa , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD *EVER* support Hp Pavillion laptops? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:12:29 -0000 I guess the atkbd command is why keyboard does not work. I am using a USB one to do the install. Will I have to always use the atkbd? Or only during the install? I am wondering if I will have to always use a USB keyboard on my laptop. :-( thx! Astrodog wrote: >On 12/3/05, wrangled wrote: > > >>I forgot to mention, it hangs on the "spinning ASCII bar" that starts >>immediately after I enter "boot" on a custom install (option #6). >> >>When I do a Verbose boot, it hangs after the first message displayed, >>which is: "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=..." >> >> >> >> >> > >Alright. It seems every Compaq/HP notebook takes its own set of >patches, but that once you find where its breaking they aren't THAT >complicated to get working. Try this, in the boot loader: > >set hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" >set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" > >It might be the same bit of brain damage my Compaq had. > > > >