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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Four more questions Message-ID: <29cr4b$q4g@pdq.coe.montana.edu> From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Date: 11 Oct 1993 23:44:11 GMT References: <kaleb.750377250@kanga.x.org> Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Keywords: FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Lines: 40 In article <kaleb.750377250@kanga.x.org>, Kaleb Keithley <kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > >Okay, I've got the kernel sources installed, added a busmouse driver, built >the kernel, and installed XFree86. GENERICAH kernel config plus busmouse minus >math emulation and PCFS. > > 1) Pressing the Caps_Lock key at any time wedges the kbd driver. > The only way out seems to be with the big red switch. Have I done > something wrong, or is this just the way it is? I saw some code > in pccons.c (I think) that would automatically reset after a > two minutes elapsed. Did I not wait long enough? Hmm, not seen this. Are you uing the stock pccons driver, or the virtual console driver sycons? > 2) Keyboard input in an xterm is buffered until I move the mouse. > At the risk of repeating myself, have I done something wrong, > or is this just the way it is? I suspect that you did not define NEW_SELECT when you built your kernel, and so the mouse driver is sitting in select() hogging up the CPU. > 3) Has anyone tried using -m486 in building the kernel? I believe so. There shouldn't be anything stopping you. > 4) Does PCFS grok HPFS? I presume that the initial configure was in > error in offering to make my OS/2 HPFS accessible from FreeBSD. Nope, and as far as I know, no free O.S. currently understands HPFS (yet). Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me