Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 11:01:13 BST From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GW2000 2.0.5 installed? Message-ID: <3830.9508111001@grogan.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Kristyn Fayette's message of Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:28:40 -0400 (EDT) References: <199508101529.LAA16071@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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> From: Kristyn Fayette <kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu> > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:28:40 -0400 (EDT) > . . . > I've had 1.0.2, 1.1.5.1, and 2.0.5 installed on my Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V. > I've got a PS/2 style mouse and the 124-key keyboard (if that's what you > mean by "goofy") and an ATI Ultra Pro mach32 video card with 2 megs. But, > I've got a Phoenix BIOS, not AMI. > > Both my serial ports work fine. Since I enabled /dev/psm0 for my mouse, tho, > I have to keep my keyboard active during the probes at boot time...especially > right after my hard disks are identified. The easiest way to do this is to > just keep pressing the numlock key and watch the light. If I forget to do > that, I've got to use another terminal to get into the system so I can shut > it down gracefully. This is only supposed to be a problem with some Phoenix > BIOS', I'm told. It didn't do it with a CompuDyne with an AMI BIOS I had > at work once. > > Yes, there's been an XFree86 driver for the mach32 since XFree86 2.1 (when I > used FreeBSD 1.0.2). > > -- > -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=- > kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu I can second most of that (I'm still happily using 1.1.5.1, with XFree86 2.1 and a mach64), but I find I only need to hit NUMLOCK once during the boot sequence, doesn't seem to matter much when as long as it's after the keyboard itself has been located. ht ------ Henry Thompson, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cogsci!ht
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