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Date:      Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:54:40 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
Subject:   Re: ThinkPad console drivers (was: Boot hangs on mounting root with  wireless card inserted)
Message-ID:  <15213.49312.452603.827431@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <a0500190ab7936f94b4db@[192.168.1.1]>
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> <a0500190ab7936f94b4db@[192.168.1.1]>

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> >  > >  > (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? 

It's not 'wrong', but it's un-necessary.


Nate

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