From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 6 11:22:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA11542 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:22:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11537 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA13663; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:26:26 -0500 Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 14:26:26 -0500 Message-Id: <199604061926.OAA13663@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Melvin Deloyd Robinson From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: BROKEN_KBD still doesnt work Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Dennis, > >I posted about a week ago on my friend's machine repeatedly getting this >error. I traced the error message to the vm_machdep.c module where the >BROKEN_KEYBOARD_RESET option is present. I want to work on this problem as >soon as I find more literature about the hardware involved, namely >datasheets or databooks on the keyboard controllers. Is your keyboard >controller the 8042 or some other? AMIKEY-2, obviously an AMI prop chip. This is pretty frightening. BTW, its an ACER 486-PCI MB. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX