Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:34:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Funny sc0 behaviour Message-ID: <19970328133445.DO64097@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199703281100.UAA07921@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Mar 28, 1997 20:00:43 %2B0900 References: <19970328112019.PN39531@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199703281100.UAA07921@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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As Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > >Shouldn't sc0 fail probing in this case? > > Set the DETECT_KBD bit (0x08) in the configuration flag of syscons, > and its probe routine (scprobe) will report failure if keyboard reset > fails. This wasn't that much my concern. I know that it's hard to reliably probe for the keyboard on all machines. > As for the display adapter, syscons assumes there always is a graphics > adapter. > > I always thought these are design decisions. I rather think it's sloppyness (or arrogance :) on the part of the graphics console drivers. pcvt suffers from the same problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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