From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 28 09:51:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA23538 for current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:51:58 -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 JAA23523 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:51:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA24652 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:51:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA22867; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:28:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970328182811.CZ37193@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:28:11 +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> <199703281705.KAA17098@rocky.mt.sri.com> 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: <199703281705.KAA17098@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Mar 28, 1997 10:05:30 -0700 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > > Of course, most of the above is a lie. :-) This machine has neither > > a keyboard connected, nor a graphics card present at all. > > > > Shouldn't sc0 fail probing in this case? > > Sure, but because of pst's 'DETECT_KBD' patch, it always returns true in > the failure mode. I agree that it shouldn't be fatal if just the keyboard detection fails. There are too many brok^H^H^H^Hweird keyboards around, as we know since the days when we tried to make the keyboard-probing bootblocks the standard. However, if there's no graphics adapter that can be found (and this condition can be detected reliably, there's no need to blindly assume it were an MDA), syscons (and pcvt, for that matter) have no business at all. -- 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. ;-)