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Subject: Re: Four more questions
Message-ID: <29cr4b$q4g@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 11 Oct 1993 23:44:11 GMT
References: <kaleb.750377250@kanga.x.org>
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
Keywords: FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON
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In article <kaleb.750377250@kanga.x.org>,
Kaleb Keithley <kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>Okay, I've got the kernel sources installed, added a busmouse driver, built 
>the kernel, and installed XFree86. GENERICAH kernel config plus busmouse minus 
>math emulation and PCFS.
>
>   1) Pressing the Caps_Lock key at any time wedges the kbd driver. 
>      The only way out seems to be with the big red switch. Have I done 
>      something wrong, or is this just the way it is? I saw some code
>      in pccons.c (I think) that would automatically reset after a
>      two minutes elapsed. Did I not wait long enough?

Hmm, not seen this.  Are you uing the stock pccons driver, or the virtual
console driver sycons?

>   2) Keyboard input in an xterm is buffered until I move the mouse.
>      At the risk of repeating myself, have I done something wrong,
>      or is this just the way it is?

I suspect that you did not define NEW_SELECT when you built your kernel,
and so the mouse driver is sitting in select() hogging up the CPU.

>   3) Has anyone tried using -m486 in building the kernel?

I believe so.  There shouldn't be anything stopping you.

>   4) Does PCFS grok HPFS? I presume that the initial configure was in 
>      error in offering to make my OS/2 HPFS accessible from FreeBSD.

Nope, and as far as I know, no free O.S. currently understands HPFS (yet).


Nate

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