From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 14 14:36:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA12586 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from perl.guru.org (perl.guru.org [198.82.200.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA12401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:33:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scott@localhost) by perl.guru.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA01678 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:29:55 -0500 From: Scott Gasch Posted-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:29:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199701142229.RAA01678@perl.guru.org> Subject: Q: problem with keyboard reset in kernel boot... To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:29:53 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've had the following problem whenever I have tried to install FreeBSD on a particular (old, strange) machine... The machine is an old Compaq luggable with a Hauppage 386-16 chip/motherboard. The problem is that the keyboard is hardwired onto the motherboard and uses a strange voltage and number of pins... When the FBSD bootdisk boots, there is a problem resetting the keyboard which leaves the keyboard locked up (controller hung?). In the user config section of the install the keyboard works fine and it is not until the actual kernel boot that the thing locks up. The actual message is: "scprobe: keyboard won't accept RESET command" I've looked in /usr/src/.../i386/isa/syscons.c at the code around this message... according to the comment above this section of code the keyboard controller is supposed to get popped back into line in the case of a reset error by the insuing function calls. I have a few questions: 1) has anyone worked aroudn this before? 2) what is the purpose of the keyboard reset; could I comment out the whole darn thing and put a custom kernel on the bootfloppy? 3) does anyone have any other solutions (besides hard drive swaping)? -- Scott Gasch scott@perl.guru.org "anything that can go Virginia Tech finger above for pgp pub key wrSegmentation fault Computer Science http://perl.guru.org/scott (core dumped)" \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/