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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!news.inc.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-8.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5: psm device broken? Date: 2 Sep 1996 19:27:15 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 34 Message-ID: <50fcej$qvf@helena.MT.net> References: <322A3E35.41C67EA6@nlc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com In article <322A3E35.41C67EA6@nlc.com>, Eric J. Rossin <ejr@nlc.com> wrote: >I just upgraded from 2.1 -> 2.1.5 (from CDROM)... . [ Rebuilt kernel ] > what appeared to be a normal re-boot, the keyboard was >dead.I didn't have the ability to remotely log in to see if the OS was >still running, but there were no messages in /var/log/messages to >believe it wasn't. > >When I disabled the psm driver, everything worked again (fortunately, I >still had an old serial mouse lying around :). There were *no* functional changes between the driver in the psm driver between 2.1 and 2.1.5, so the only culprit could be the console driver. J'rg's suggestion of a config file change isn't correct either, since if the conflicts keyword wasn't there it wouldn't even probe, therefore it would be disabled. I'm not sure what to tell you, other than you could try the psm driver from -current which has a slightly different probe and see if it changes. Or, if you're really paranoid you could grab the psm.c driver from 2.1 and see if it makes any difference (if it does then I've really screwed up since I only re-formatted it for 2.1.5, and there shouldn't have been any functional changes.) Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!