Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:28:45 +1030 From: "W. Sierke" <ws@senet.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mitsubishi Diamond Touch keyboard problem Message-ID: <019301c2f458$38276340$0264a8c0@regional.net.au>
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Hi, I recently completed an installation of 4.7 (using the kern.flp mfsroot.flp) and which was originally hanging at the first 'sysinstall' screen (sorry, can't remember the question that was posed - "load kernel modules?" perhaps?). The keyboard (Mitsubishi Diamond Touch) would not respond and the only avenue was a reboot, rinse and repeat. After only a dozen or two consecutive failed attempts, I wised up and pulled out my trusty old 101-key beast which made those locked-up blues disappear. The best result of my search efforts was a vague reference that there "might be problems with keyboards with 'extra' keys such as power control keys" which this keyboard has. I was hoping someone might be able to point me at something a bit more definitive as to whether I can expect problems if I swap back to the Mitsubishi keyboard, which I would like to do. Unrelated I'd like to say how much I enjoyed installing FreeBSD on this old system which is destined to become a home file server. A P166 with 64M and 80G Seagate Barracuda V and D-Link 530TX. While the keyboard (and a couple of other 'issues') detracted a little, I was chuffed when I got to the disk-slicing stage and found all 80G sitting there in their shining glory. So much for my MS-centric colleagues who said it couldn't be done with such an old bios (of the 8G vintage). Ultimately the bios proved to be a sticking point in that it wouldn't boot when set to 16383/16/63, but dropping the heads to 15 (a buggy AMI bios, I think I may have read somewhere?) and away we went. FreeBSD gracefully ignored the bios drive settings throughout the procedure and used what it 'knew' to be right, even with the drive disabled in the bios. Woo-hoo. Thanks, Wayne
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