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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PS/2 mouse config on a laptop Date: 30 Apr 1996 06:50:27 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4m4d7j$5k3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4l23jn$lvq@cmgm.stanford.edu> <4lvi7c$a8@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >: I've noticed that reboot(8) does not always reboot my computer. When >: I hit keys during reboot process, it sometimes restarts the computer. >: Most of the time, it just hangs after printing the "Rebooting" message. >Are you switched to vty0 when it reboots after pressing keys ? It can be >misleading - not seeing the "Rebooting" message. Well, he wrote that he sees the ``Rebooting'' message. This is more likely a problem where you've got 8-bit wide and 16-bit wide cards in a single 128 KB address segment on the ISA bus (with ROMs on them, like a VGA or a SCSI controller). This is said to confuse the BIOS so it doesn't properly reset. Yes, i know that it is hard to avoid, since almost all cards only offer ROM locations in the area of 0xc8000 throug 0xdffff which is one 128 KB segment. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)