Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 11:01:13 BST From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GW2000 2.0.5 installed? Message-ID: <3830.9508111001@grogan.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Kristyn Fayette's message of Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:28:40 -0400 (EDT) References: <199508101529.LAA16071@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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> From: Kristyn Fayette <kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:28:40 -0400 (EDT)
> . . .
> I've had 1.0.2, 1.1.5.1, and 2.0.5 installed on my Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V.
> I've got a PS/2 style mouse and the 124-key keyboard (if that's what you
> mean by "goofy") and an ATI Ultra Pro mach32 video card with 2 megs. But,
> I've got a Phoenix BIOS, not AMI.
>
> Both my serial ports work fine. Since I enabled /dev/psm0 for my mouse, tho,
> I have to keep my keyboard active during the probes at boot time...especially
> right after my hard disks are identified. The easiest way to do this is to
> just keep pressing the numlock key and watch the light. If I forget to do
> that, I've got to use another terminal to get into the system so I can shut
> it down gracefully. This is only supposed to be a problem with some Phoenix
> BIOS', I'm told. It didn't do it with a CompuDyne with an AMI BIOS I had
> at work once.
>
> Yes, there's been an XFree86 driver for the mach32 since XFree86 2.1 (when I
> used FreeBSD 1.0.2).
>
> --
> -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=-
> kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu
I can second most of that (I'm still happily using 1.1.5.1, with
XFree86 2.1 and a mach64), but I find I only need to hit NUMLOCK once
during the boot sequence, doesn't seem to matter much when as long as
it's after the keyboard itself has been located.
ht
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