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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: XFree 1.2 keyboard and busmouse?
In-Reply-To: jim@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl's message of 21 Feb 93 10:50:34 GMT
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In article <1m7mpq$58i@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> jim@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump) writes:
   Scott A. Hissam (hissam@source.asset.com) wrote:
   : group,

   : 	I have XFree 1.2, a standard no frills keyboard and logitech
   : 3button busmouse: questions:

   : 	1 X startx in 640x480 w/ 800x600 virtual OK but keyboard
   : 	returns strange stuff I cannot type anything reasonable
   : 	just garbage is returned

   This is what happend to me also. I assume the pccons-kernel is not working.
   What I did is use an old kernel with the earlier X386-patches.
   Xfree1.2 is running normally now.

It's my fault - I got the kernels switched when archiving them.  The
following is part of the errata that will be posted soon.  The errata
and the new files are available on agate.berkeley.edu in
/pub/incoming/XFree86-1.2 untill they are moved to
/pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.2.

  The archives names holding the pccons and codrv configurations of the
  386BSD kernel binaries on agate.berkeley.edu in
  /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86-1.2 are named backwards.

  kernel-1.2.pccons.tar.Z is actually contains the codrv configuration and
  kernel-1.2.codrv.tar.Z is actually contains the pccons configuration.  

  Just to be certain, you can match the checksums on each kernel:
  3118173032 501254 386bsd  -  is in fact the codrv configuration.
  185562127 490808 386bsd  -  is in fact the pccons configuration.

  The new archives in /pub/incoming/XFree86-1.2 have corrected names
  and MANIFEST files are added:

  kernel-1.2.pccons-fix-1.tar.Z - uses the stock pccons console driver
  kernel-1.2.codrv-fix-1.tar.Z - uses Holger Veit's enhanced console driver

I'm very sorry for any inconvenience.  Rich