From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 16 17:35:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA08608 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:35:46 -0800 Received: from phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu (PHRED.WS.CC.CMU.EDU [128.2.74.228]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA08598 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:35:42 -0800 Received: (from alex@localhost) by phred.ws.cc.cmu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA00492; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:34:47 -0500 From: alex wetmore Message-Id: <199503170134.UAA00492@phred.org> Subject: Re: installing on a thinkpad 750 To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 20:34:46 -0500 (EST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9503162103.AA24601@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 16, 95 02:03:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 814 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >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