Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 03:21:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tobin Kyllingstad <tobin@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet another ThinkPAD problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331032106.397m-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <SIMEON.9703240255.B@alderan.ini.cmu.edu>
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On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Tobin Kyllingstad wrote: > I have recently sludged through installing 2.2-RELEASE on a ThinkPAD > 750. I have recompiled the kernel with all of the PCVT lines > uncommented. I have poked through the email database at > www.freebsd.org, but I still have two problems. > (1) When I reboot, / has never dismounted properly, and I average more > than three reboot cycles before I can logon. During reboot and at > other spurious times, I see interrupt timeout errors for the harddrive. > Is this a known ThinkPAD problem or may I have faulty hardware? you shoudl be running 'shutdown' before rebooting. It may be finicky IDE hardware not allowing the sync to complete. Then, run sync a few times before starting the shutdown. > (2) The Fn feature is set and locked when I use the Caps Lock key, exit > vi, or do other things. I have not been able to unset this feature > using any key combination, and since a lot of important keys are now > overloaded, I can not execute any commands. I can not even switch to a > different virtual consol to type. My only option has been to power > cycle the laptop. This together with problem (1), is really annoying. > Does anyone know how to deal with this? Not really, sorry. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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