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From: kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Four more questions
Date: 12 Oct 93 09:52:03 GMT
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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Message-ID: <kaleb.750419523@kanga.x.org>
References: <kaleb.750377250@kanga.x.org> <29cr4b$q4g@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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Keywords: FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON

nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>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?

As far as I can tell, the GENERICAH kernel config specifies pccons.

>>   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).

Okay, so some part of the 'configure' saw my OS/2 HPFS and asked if it
should make it accessible under FreeBSD -- how was it going to do that?
Or was that an error?

Thanks

--

Kaleb Keithley