Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:46:59 +0000 (GMT+00:00) From: auto245751@hushmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Issues - Keyboard "Freeze" Message-ID: <200106050747.AAA15307@user8.hushmail.com>
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At Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:43:10 +0000 (GMT+00:00), auto245751@hushmail.com wrote: > >How can I disable the 0x1 flags for the keyboard driver during installation? >My previous post didn't get much of a reply. I tried installing FreeBSD >4.2-RELEASE on a two year old computer, but encountered disk errors >(ffs_clusteralloc: >map mismatch) during installation that MANY OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED. >The >sad thing is, there's a critical PR for this problem, and no one seems >to >want anything to do with it. So I bought a _NEW_ computer for the purpose >of installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, and now I have some stupid @!$!@#!@ >keyboard >problem that MANY OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED. It works fine on every other >OS I install, but that's unacceptable! I want FreeBSD! Before you reply, > please realize that this is the INSTALLATION phase I'm going through, > so >I have no idea how to issue sysctls, apply ghastly kernel patches, or >disable >the damn 0x1 flags for the keyboard driver. Maybe someone could tell >me >how to make my own kern.flp or something. But only if you must -- sounds >like a pain in the ass to me. If I can just get my keyboard to work >(as >it does during boot, up until the "kernel configuration screen"), I'm >all >set and I'll finally be able to enjoy FreeBSD as I have over the past >year. >I never have any complaints about a running FreeBSD system, so please >help >me get this installed once and for all ;-) > >I should've said in my last post that I'm using a PS/2 keyboard. > >Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com > Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.comhelp
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