From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 28 04:36:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA08782 for current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA08777 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:36:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA20855 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:36:10 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22071; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:34:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970328133445.DO64097@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <19970328112019.PN39531@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199703281100.UAA07921@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199703281100.UAA07921@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Mar 28, 1997 20:00:43 +0900 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)