Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:48:59 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: gerti@bitart.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A bug? or NOT! About FreeBSD 4.1 Message-ID: <200008152348.QAA51849@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000815192956.14676.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> from Gerd Knops at "Aug 15, 2000 02:29:56 pm"
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Gerd Knops wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > bsdnewbie bsdnewbie wrote: > > > When boots from the FreeBSD 4.1 CD and "sysinstall" appears, the > > > keyboard losts its function. No matter what I press, there is no > > > response, even the key "caps lock", thoroughly dead. I have > > > downloaded the "iso" file from "ftp.freebsd.org" and the md5sum > > > matched. What is the problem, is this a bug in 4.1, or the new > > > version is not compatible with my machine? The old version 4.0 has > > > no problem! Can anybody help me? Urgent! Thanks in advance. > > > > What kind of keyboard is it? Is it a USB keyboard plugged into an > > Intel USB controller with legacy support enabled? > > > Actually that sounds like the well known ASUS K7 problem... > > Try disabling the virus detection in the BIOS. That fixed a problem > with identical symptoms in my case. No. First, I've added a workaround for the virus protection buglet in various K7 mobo's. Also, that bug caused the loader to die, thus the system never got into sysinstall. This problem is related to the kernel and later since sysinstall doesn't have any keyboard activity. > Gerd -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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