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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:34:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      alex wetmore <alex@phred.org>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: installing on a thinkpad 750
Message-ID:  <199503170134.UAA00492@phred.org>
In-Reply-To: <9503162103.AA24601@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 95 02:03:56 pm

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> > >Anyway, back to the keyboard.  The problem is that by default the
> > >ThinkPad uses PS/2 scan code mode.
> > 
> > Doesn't it accept the console driver's setting of the old scan code mode?
> 
> Not according to Joerg's message.
> 
> Really, we need a definitive post from someone who has one working;
> I thought that's what the quoted article did, although it was hardly
> something you could do anything about without another machine to
> build a kernel for you... a poor soloution, but the only one I had
> to offer.  8-(.

I got this Thinkpad running NetBSD.  The trick with the keyboard was to
use pccons and comment out the code to initialize the keyboard.  To get
the machine working otherwise I had to tell NetBSD that there is 4k
less memory then there is (biosbasemem -= 4 in i386/machdep.c).

alex



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