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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7350 ; Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:52:31 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!charnel!sifon!CC.UMontreal.CA!spb72.jsp.umontreal.ca!surprenc From: surprenc@spb72.jsp.umontreal.ca (Surprenant Colin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] Keyboard is locking up! Message-ID: <1993Jan20.203154.26670@cc.umontreal.ca> Date: 20 Jan 93 20:31:54 GMT Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews) Organization: Universite de Montreal Lines: 38 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Hi, ok I posted a message some days ago, got no replys, but resolved my problem! The problem was, after the whole boot sequence of TinyBSD on my 486, I got to the prompt but the keyboard was frozen... My machine is an Intel LP486/33 (known as the Professionnal Workstation) With EISA bus, embeded SCSI, IDE, Video and Ethernet controllers. Ok now, I could boot 386BSD on my 386 with not a problem. But it is not the machine I want it to run on :( ... so I patched the kbd init sequence and had it working. I'll explain what I did. But first, I found another solution to my problem, the kbd would not lockup if I kept a key depressed during the whole boot sequence. (Probably need to be depressed only during kbd initialisation, but anyhow...) I talked about my problem to one of my friend who told me he had the same problem when he tried to install Minix (some time ago...) and what he did, he resent a 'kbd reset' command after kbd initialisation sequence. So, I did, I saw that kbd was actually initialised in the probe routine (all this in pccons.c) and that the attach routine was only looking for video capabilities. I just added a line sending another 'KBC_RESET' to the kbd and it actually solved my problem! :) I dont have any specs or docs on the 8242 (?) kbd controller nor on the one used in my machine (I dont have it under my hand, but if any interest, I'll post it) so I can't explain why it solved my problem... but I'll dig... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Colin Surprenant | ROT inc. galaad@rot.qc.ca | Recherche Operationelle en Telecommunication Phone: 514-849-0948 | Montreal, Quebec FAX: 514-849-6775 | IP: 192.77.49.131 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- surprenc@jsp.umontreal.ca | Universite de Montreal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------