Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 14:52:06 -0700 From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: ThinkPad console drivers (was: Boot hangs on mounting root with wireless card inserted) Message-ID: <a0500190ab7936f94b4db@[192.168.1.1]> In-Reply-To: <15213.48265.243233.242911@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <a05001900b79294fd5109@[192.168.1.1]> <200108050725.f757PsH78097@harmony.village.org> <a05001901b792b8e5c24b@[192.168.1.1]> <15213.35243.10016.536496@nomad.yogotech.com> <a05001907b79361d378f8@[192.168.1.1]> <15213.48265.243233.242911@nomad.yogotech.com>
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Nate Williams writes: > > > > (Now if we can just discover why the ThinkPad's terminals go nuts >> >> occasionally and apparently lose the keymaps we can start >> >> celebrating.) >> > >> >Strange. I've *never* had that happen in the 6+ years I've been using >> >IBM Stinkpad's. >> > >> >Are you using syscons, or PCVT? >> > >> >Nate >> >> >> Alas, we were mistakenly using syscons. Thanks for pointing us in >> the right direction. If we'd been paying attention when we were >> editing the kernel conf file, we would have prevented the problem in >> the first place: > >Actually, the comment is wrong. Syscons should work fine, and the >comment needs to be adjusted to say something like 'really old' >Thinkpads. > >(FYI, the comment is mine). > > >Nate DOH! You mean pcvt is the wrong way to go with the newer Thinkpads? My friend's in the process of recompiling the kernel with pcvt support as I write this. Ah, me... .\\ichelle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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