From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 1 1:40:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C07A37C1C9 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p08-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.9]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id SAA19503; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:40:26 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38BCE54A.3FFF4200@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:39:22 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Jacobson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: things I noticed w/ 4.0 References: <200003010628.BAA33986@home.my.domain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Jacobson wrote: > > Kernel option VESA fails (see dmesg below). Is this a problem with my > graphics card? Are you, by any chance, both compiling in VESA _and_ loading it with loader? > Kernel option PNPBIOS causes the mouse to stop working. A pointer is > visible at boot (w/ moused) until the mouse is moved, then it disappears > forever. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what PNPBIOS does.... Weird. Are you sure your BIOS is set to PnP OS = No? > 'halt -p' still doesn't turn my computer off :). Haven't tested any other > functionality of apm though. I usually disable apm in the bios since > it makes turning the system power off w/ the button on the case a problem > under FreeBSD. Any ideas? Yep. Try turning apm in BIOS on. :-) > /usr/games/phantasia doesn't like the return key. You have to use > - (w/ TERMs xterm and cons25). /usr/games/teachgammon doesn't > always clear the screen of previous text completely. Mmmmm... I seem to recall someone were tweaking phantasia lately... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message