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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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