Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:00:14 +1000 (EST) From: Tony Jago <T.Jago@prentice.uq.edu.au> To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>, Kazutaka Yokota <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PSM problem... [ intel motherboard and silo problems ] Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980716103011.24544A-100000@doughnut.cc.uq.edu.au>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Brian, In found your e-mail about problems getting your PS/2 port on an intel AL440LX motherboard to work. I own an AL440LX as well and had exactly the same problem: > psm0: current command byte:0047 > kbdio: TEST_AUX_PORT status:00fa > kbdio: DIAGNOSE status:0055 > kbdio: TEST_KBD_PORT status:00fa > psm: keyboard port failed. > psm0: the aux port is not functioning (250). > psm0 not found at 0x60 My mouse worked fine under windows 95 as yours did. Under Win95 the mouse port was reported to be on int 12 which was what freebsd expected it to be. The mouse had worked when I installed FreeBSD originally so I suspected it was something I had changed. The only thing I could think of was a BIOS upgrade so I rolled back the BIOS to P08 and everything started working! Then I rolled it forward to the current version P09 and it still worked! The BIOS changes caused the CMOS memory to get cleared and caused the system to re-run the Plug and Play doobie so perhaps this is what fixed it. I also had another problem with the machine. I was constantly getting silo over flows when using my modem. The best transfer rate I could get was about 3K a second. At this point a silo overflow would occurr and a packet would get dropped and the TCP stack would drop back its transfer rate. I had to set my modem port to 38400 and even then I would have the occasional over flow under heavy load. This BIOS down-up-grade fixed this problem as well! I can now run the 56K modem at 115200 bps with not a single overflow. Transfering some text files using the modem compression ran the comm port up to the 115200 limit with no problems. Under windows 95 the modem would work with the default settings but if you moved the buffer size sliders up to maximum then a similar problem would happen just the windows just silently dropped the packets and no error was reported. Thanks again for posting to the mailing list. Without your e-mail I am sure I would have never worked out what the problem was. - --- Tony Jago, Systems Programmer, E-Mail: T.Jago@prentice.uq.edu.au Facilities Management Services, Phone: +61 7 3365 4078 Prentice Centre, The University of Fax: +61 7 3365 4477 Queensland. Brisbane, Australia. 4072. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNa1QpphPSpCDJcQFAQG0UQP/RCs1pGPCwMThVodaK0HuXfgURCniY6d+ yptWFobwAyctZR+p3BT23re5PhstXMQsCgF5TB7ULCNUuS0veNCTTin6fwMH/849 g4mBgeRB6Bk4tl+BR5A16prKERQ8CS2aiRdQlxXrhPwvJYrPmIHz1JFGxHgQW08C IgPO4wkAA+0= =QdDN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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