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From: Marc Novakowski <novakow@ee.ualberta.ca>
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Okay, I solved the below problem by compiling a kernel (with great
difficulty)
with the vt0 console device rather than sc0.

Now I have a different problem!!  It seems that the computer boots fine
until
the login: prompt.  Then, the keyboard locks and I can't type anything! 
I
can't even switch vt's.  I read in the mailing list archives of this
happening
to other people but I couldn't find any solutions.

I am trying all of this with the March23 SNAP.. would I have more luck
with
the latest 2.1.5 release?

Thank you in advance..

---
Marc Novakowski
novakow@ee.ualberta.ca


I wrote:
> 
> I am having problems running FreeBSD on a Pentium Pro 180.  The motherboard
> is an ASUS P/I-P6NP5 PCI.  The problem is, once I boot into FreeBSD, I can't
> see the cursor on the screen.  Also when I type, the text does not appear
> until I switch to another virtual console and then back again!
> 
> Other "weird" things happening:
> - I can't seem to "reboot" or "shutdown" the machine.. the KILL signal is
>   sent, but the disks aren't synced (SCSI disk)
> - when I booted up before, the internal speaker would emit a high pitched
>   tone.. I disconnected it to solve this problem
> - when I try to mount an MSDOS floppy, the computer just hangs
> 
> This sounds pretty weird to me, and the folks on #freebsd on IRC couldn't
> help me out.  I would try to use the vt0 device rather than the sc0 device
> but it is not supplied in the "generic" kernel, and it is very hard to edit
> the kernel config files in vi without a cursor!
> 
> Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated..
> 
> System Info:
> Motherboard:    ASUS P/I-P6NP5 with PPro 180 chip
> RAM:            64 Meg EDO, 60 ns (2 x 32Meg SIMMs)
> SCSI adapter:   ASUS PCI-SC200 Fast SCSI
> Ethernet card:  SMC EtherPower (SMC8432T)
> CDROM:          NEC 2x SCSI
> Tape:           Colorado T1000
> Video:          ATI GSSC (mono)
> Monitor:        AST Monochrome
> 
> Note: I have tried it also with a 1meg PCI ATI Mach64 & SVGA monitor and it
> still does the same thing.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> ---
> Marc Novakowski
> novakow@ee.ualberta.ca