From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 18: 7:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from evilfry.dyndns.org (dyn15ppp140.qala.com.sg [210.193.15.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE8137B407 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:07:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@evilfry.dyndns.org) Received: by evilfry.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 0) id A1F2C183BA6; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:10:07 +0800 (SGT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James Lim Reply-To: evilfry@sg.freebsd.org To: auto245751@hushmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Issues - Keyboard "Freeze" (fwd) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:10:05 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200106050058.RAA20712@user8.hushmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200106050058.RAA20712@user8.hushmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01060509100502.10398@evilfry.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please refrain from sending multiple copies.=20 On the last episode Tuesday 05 June 2001 08:57,=20 auto245751@hushmail.com wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:43:10 +0000 (GMT+00:00) > Subject: Installation Issues - Keyboard "Freeze" > From: auto245751@hushmail.com > Reply-to: auto245751@hushmail.com > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > How can I disable the 0x1 flags for the keyboard driver during > installation? My previous post didn't get much of a reply. I tried > installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a two year old computer, but > encountered disk errors (ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch) during > installation that MANY OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED. The sad thing is, > there's a critical PR for this problem, and no one seems to want > anything to do with it. So I bought a _NEW_ computer for the > purpose of installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, and now I have some > stupid @!$!@#!@ keyboard problem that MANY OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED. > It works fine on every other OS I install, but that's unacceptable! > I want FreeBSD! Before you reply, please realize that this is the > INSTALLATION phase I'm going through, so I have no idea how to > issue sysctls, apply ghastly kernel patches, or disable the damn > 0x1 flags for the keyboard driver. Maybe someone could tell me how > to make my own kern.flp or something. But only if you must -- > sounds like a pain in the ass to me. If I can just get my keyboard > to work (as it does during boot, up until the "kernel configuration > screen"), I'm all set and I'll finally be able to enjoy FreeBSD as > I have over the past year. I never have any complaints about a > running FreeBSD system, so please help me get this installed once > and for all ;-) > > I should've said in my last post that I'm using a PS/2 keyboard. > > Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com > > Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com --=20 Regards, James Lim http://sg.freebsd.org | http://www.bsd-geeks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message