From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 1 8:17:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEAC37BD1C for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (root@rac6.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.146]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA14472; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:16:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac6.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA26460; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:16:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac6.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26456; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:16:27 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac6.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:16:27 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Joseph Jacobson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: things I noticed w/ 4.0 In-Reply-To: <38BCE54A.3FFF4200@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > 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? heh, when I set this option to "no" in my bios... -CURRENT won't even finish probing the hardware... it just hangs in the boot-probe messages. > > > '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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message