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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!kaleb From: kaleb@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Kaleb Keithley) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Four more questions Date: 12 Oct 93 09:52:03 GMT Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <kaleb.750419523@kanga.x.org> References: <kaleb.750377250@kanga.x.org> <29cr4b$q4g@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kanga.x.org Keywords: FreeBSD 1.0 EPSILON nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >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? As far as I can tell, the GENERICAH kernel config specifies pccons. >> 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). Okay, so some part of the 'configure' saw my OS/2 HPFS and asked if it should make it accessible under FreeBSD -- how was it going to do that? Or was that an error? Thanks -- Kaleb Keithley