Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Subject: Re: Tecra 730 Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970104211837.208A-100000@eris.beattie.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <199701041738.KAA13870@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > Both syscons and the PS/2 driver are *very* new under -BETA. > > > The keyboard still locks up under X + fvwm-1.24r, restarting the X > > server brings the keyboard back. > > *sigh* I suspect you could switch to another virtual terminal and do the > same thing, but w/out a keyboard it's kinda hard. :( > Hmmm, maybe I can think up some way to trigger the switch from a mouse action, anybody know of a way to cause the switch from user space? I could write a program. > > I will try another window manager > > but any hints. clues, suggestions would help. Also any hints on how > > to get the ps/2 mouse driver to work without causing the keyboard to > > stop working would be usefull. > > Kazutaka is the new expert in the PS/2 & keyboard area, so I've Cc'd him > with this. He's got a new driver for me to try out, but due to time > constraints and the holidays I haven't done anything with it. I *just* > got my hands free for a little time this morning, so as soon as I finish > up email I'm going to install and test it on my box. > I'd be glad to be a test subject, I'm fairly confortable messing around in the kernel, especially if I know what area to look at. > > The 3c589c-combo. > > > > It is brand new.. I have used it under win95 with both the UTP and > > BNC, at least once trying the BNC under FreeBSD immediately using the > > BNC under win95. I have tried using the 3com utility to set the > > connector type both under win95 and msdos 6.0. I will try again but > > and suggestions gratefully accepted. > > You've already tried messing with the link flags, correct? Try messing > with the link2 flag as well. > I have tried various combinations but I'll give it another go. Brian Beattie | From an MIT job ad "Applicants must also have http://www.aracnet.com/~beattie | extensive knowledge of UNIX, although they beattie@aracnet.com | should have sufficently good programming taste Fax (503)331-8186 | to not consider this an achievement." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMs87SlQwtztGaITFAQFqqgP8DRFq+hp3BP8fW0gatV63qjXlChEpSRRg gEAxs9a1H1DB50nF/V5UKmBdZpRnnp9GXDu2/uKgegxpz2/JwOg0H2kvD56gPPrb OZSg04NtcX/2v1Ao+swT7ra2gJykTTb2+TP6g1ahfg0EvTsRoSdhVyAyuav/Xlj4 PzUgC6cyIJg= =9x3y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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