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Date:      Mon, 24 Mar 1997 02:24:55 -0500 ()
From:      Tobin Kyllingstad <tobin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Yet another ThinkPAD problem
Message-ID:  <SIMEON.9703240255.B@alderan.ini.cmu.edu>

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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?
(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?

Tobin

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Tobin J. Kyllingstad           / "An unbreakable toy is
tobin@andrew.cmu.edu          / useful for breaking
http://www.ini.cmu.edu/~tobin/ other toys." - Van Roy






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