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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pagesat.net!quack!quack.kfu.com!nsayer From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: 2.0.5-R and new laptop woes Message-ID: <gyMsdmZ@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@quack.kfu.com (0000-News(0000)) Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. References: <gyIwnLG@quack.kfu.com> <gyJ7tvz@quack.kfu.com> Date: 16 Jun 1995 21:04:18 UTC Lines: 43 Forgive me for having a conversation with myself. :-) nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: >>2. enabling psm0 causes the keyboard to be totally and utterly >>frozen. Everything else still works normally, however. Obviously >>when X comes along, this will be a significant >>downer if there's no fix, since it is indeed a ps/2 trackball. >I am anxious to hear from ANYONE who has a laptop with a PS/2 style >pointing device that's working with a 2.0.5-RELEASE kernel. I actually >hope that this is a FreeBSD bug, or I'll be very, very upset. It's not a FreeBSD bug, it appears to be a hardware oddity in the Zenith. If I put a return(4); at the top of psmprobe() in /sys/i386/isa/psm.c, the problem goes away. I am now hapilly using X with the built-in hardware and an 1152x900x8 (virtual) screen. I have passed on a copy of psm.c to the tech support folks at Zenith. I'll keep everyone posted if I get any response. Perhaps they can suggest a better probe routine for PS/2 mice...? I still haven't figured out what I've done wrong with the sound, though. If anyone knows the config file magic for a Microsoft Windows Sound System widget, I'd love to hear it. I've also got more data on the wakeup hang problem. It does not happen when I boot the boot.flp and play around in the menus. I can rest and restore to my heart's content. However, when running my normal kernel, a restore causes a 'stuck hourglass' failure. I've tried disabling all of the drivers that make sense, doing the rest/restore in single user mode... This is weird. What could the boot floppy be doing differently? -- Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> | Welcome to the N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NORCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | Information Superhighway +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | URL: http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ | NOW GO HOME!