Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:18:41 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq R3000Z keyboard doesn't work without DSDT patch Message-ID: <346a80220503312218926bfdb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200503281243.37327.jkim@niksun.com> References: <20050208163758.GA1086@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <200502081156.51114.nb_root@videotron.ca> <200503261117.29939.nb_root@videotron.ca> <200503281243.37327.jkim@niksun.com>
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On Mar 28, 2005 12:43 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:17 am, Nicolas Blais wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Without the following lines in loader.conf: > > acpi_dsdt_load="YES" > > acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml" > > > > and of course in device.hints: > > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" > > > > and Jung-uk Kim's r3000z-asl.diff found on this list, my keyboard > > not work at all but the booting process is fine and I can move my > > mouse, log on thru ssh etc... > > > > I was under the impression that 5.4 would be "R3000 friendly" and > > that the only things needed were hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" in > > device.hints and the powernow module (which stays at 800mhz while > > acpi_ppc works). Is there something I'm doing wrong? > > You are not doing anything wrong. The real problem is the BIOS is so > broken that some problems cannot be worked around. :-( Keyboard > resource is overlapped with something else. We cannot fix all > problems without breaking other platforms, unfortunately. > > Jung-uk Kim > > > Thanks, > > Nicolas. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > FYI, I had to apply this cange manually to my prof's R3000. The diff just didn't line up. I suspect various revisions of this laptop will have slight differences in the BIOS code. Perhaps one of these will be accidentally fixed by them....If you really want to fix it, contact HP/Compaq and tell them that their stuff is broke and they should fix it. -- coleman
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