From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 16 22:31:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA13835 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:31:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA13827 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:31:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA11494; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 07:09:34 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA16516; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:22:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:22:50 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: mmcg@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/2485: 2.2-BETA (install) device probe appears to screw screen References: <199701162200.OAA16354@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 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: <199701162200.OAA16354@freefall.freebsd.org>; from mmcg@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au on Jan 16, 1997 14:00:02 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As mmcg@heraclitus.cs.monash.edu.au wrote: > NB: It may be wise to distribute a `PCVT-based' install floppy as well > as the usual syscons one. I know that Nate once did this, to work around the problem that syscons didn't handle the Thinkpad out of the box... I'm not sure whether sysinstall relies on some features of syscons. To the least, the keyboard mapping stuff wouldn't work. I would rather love to see the bug fixed... -- 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. ;-)