From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 8 23:26:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA14405 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 23:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA14400 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 23:26:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id XAA27393; Thu, 8 May 1997 23:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA11705; Thu, 8 May 1997 23:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705090624.XAA11705@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Mike Nowlin cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frozen virtual terminals on Dell system In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 08 May 97 09:05:08 -0400. Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 23:24:41 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Well then, that's likely not going to help my case much, then. :-) It >> seems that this is a Dell-specific "feature". They like to do some >> things their own way, and I wouldn't be surprised a bit if they made >> some funky half-compatible keyboard mod. >You may have said this in the beginning of this discussion, but what Dell >model(s) are you dealing with? I have a Dell Optiplex 433s/L that's just >sitting here and hasn't been turned on in months. Maybe I'll throw >FreeBSD on it and see what happens. I had it running FreeBSD 2.1.0 quite >a while ago, and don't remember any problems (except it was sllloooowwww. >-- 4MB wasn't quite enough!), but I'm willing to see if I can re-create >the problem... One of them is a Dell OptiPlex 133MHz Pentium (don't remember the exact numbers and letters). The other is either an OptiPlex or OmniPlex. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------