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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: Seppo Ruuskanen <Seppo.Ruuskanen@axis.se>
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Subject: Re: Re: FreeBSD custom bootfloppies 
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> Ok, my problem is that I cant get XFree86 working with the PCVT
> displaydriver!.  It would of course be nice if I could do my own
> distributionfloppys but in the meanwhile I can manage with the
> old. But to have my Thinkpad functional with FreeBSD I really want X
> also!. The keyboard and the mouse dies when I start up XFree86, not a
> single key works, they are totally dead. xev shows nothing when I
> start it (of course from another machine since the keyboard and mouse
> is dead)


I've never tried running X with FreeBSD (yet) on a IBM, although I will
try it soon.

> So please rewrite XFree86 and PCVT so that they do work on a Thinkpad!.

I'm *not* going to do that.


Nate