Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:04:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> To: John Daniels <jmd526@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-qa@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instrallation floppies and USB Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003020956010.1538-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000301202824.52769.qmail@hotmail.com>
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[Just a quick response, some things to try will follow this evening.] > Configuration Table [Disabled] > PCI IRQ setting [Auto] > PCI IRQ sharing [No] should be Yes. > Plug and Play OS [Yes] Should be No. > I thought that PCI IRQ sharing might allow for dynamic assignment of IRQs, > but changing this to 'Yes' had no effect. It should be on anyway. FreeBSD supports. In the future you might add more hardware which makes you run out of IRQs > I thought that Reset Resource Assignments might enable the OS to set > resouces (IRQ, etc) but everytime I looked at this after I had chosen 'Yes,' > it had been set back to 'No.' Acer support tells me that all this does is > reset the resources back to their original values. You'll see a message saying 'Updating ESCD...' etc. > 1. When I try to boot the kern.flp disk, I get the message: > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no > Booting continues but the keyboard is unusable unless I immmediately hit the > space bar then type '-Dh' at the 'boot:' prompt as described in the > TROUBLE.TXT document in the -CURRENT snapshot directory. NOTE: That > document says that the '-Dh' workaround is meant for older systems with an > 84-key keyboard, but it is working for my 1999 Acer Asprire with a 102-key > USB keyboard! That means the BIOS emulates a XT/AT style keyboard. Nick -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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