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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!summer
From: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: Re: HELP! 386BSD kbd problem on notebook : -(
Message-ID: <summer.733616213@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
References: <9309019.27177@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 22:16:53 GMT
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I wrote:
>I have just tried to boot the pk-0.2 dist.fs disk on a new 486 notebook
>(of a fairly generic nature).
>Everything goes OK until the shell prompt "#", when I find I can't type
>anything (well, I can, but it doesn't recognise the keyboard :-( )
>Perhaps I need a different console driver? If so, is there a site somewhere
>with a suitable dist.fs/fixit.fs image? Or is the problem something else?
I've kind of solved my own problem -- if I use the *unpatched* dist.fs then
everything's OK, so my new question is:
When I install 386bsd, and apply the 0.2.2 patchkit, WHICH PATCH IS GOING
TO KILL MY KEYBOARD?! If I get a new console driver up and running first,
will this avoid the problem? If so, which console driver?
Thanks for any pointers...
Mark.
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Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au]
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