From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 18:54:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBF837B423 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 18:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8346978315; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:24:43 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 13:24:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Zhang Weiwu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Keyboard problems? (was: system halted after boot with CD-ROM (but before installation)) Message-ID: <20020102132443.A59117@monorchid.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Tuesday, 1 January 2002 at 16:35:48 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > My desktop computer can be booted with a standard freebsd 4.4 > CD-ROM, but it halted at the screen asking me "a standard > installation" or "custom installation" or "Expressed installation" > etc. What do you mean by "halted"? > I have a intel 82810 mainboard, with on-board display adapter > and sound, with an extra display(sis 5596) adapter (for dual > dispaly) and a NIC, a modem installed on PCIs. It seems as if only > keyboard cannot send a thing to system. Were you able to get past the initial screen, where you have to select something? > Maybe it's a bug. The CD-ROM runs OK on other machines. The CD-ROM is obviously working. We occasionally see problems with keyboards. Do you have a keyboard of a different make which you could try? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message