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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!gatech!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Questions Date: 08 Nov 1993 05:08:46 GMT Organization: Lotus Development Ireland Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.93Nov7210846@whisker.lotus.ie> References: <chiCG4qp4.H3E@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie In-reply-to: chi@netcom.com's message of Sun, 7 Nov 1993 16:19:51 GMT In article <chiCG4qp4.H3E@netcom.com> chi@netcom.com (Curt Hagenlocher) writes: 1) On three occaisions, my keyboard has died while in X. One time, I was able to telnet in and "shutdown", at which point the system This does not happen if you use syscons & XFree86 2.0 since that does not use /dev/vga, but rather a more elegant mechanism for requesting a free vty from the driver. I am about to punt pccons from the system as this is causing too many problems. 2. This is a subject I haven't really seen addressed in any previous postings. Is there support for sending commands to my CDROM to play music CDs? If it matters, I've got an Adaptec 1542 controller and Yes, don't have the ioctl's offhand - look in /usr/src/sys/scsi/scsi_cd.h. There's even an `xcdplayer' package floating around. 3. To what address to I send a request to join the mailing lists FreeBSD-[bugs|questions|hackers]? Mail to majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com and say, somewhere in the body of the message: subscribe freebsd-xxxx Where `xxxx' is the list you want. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.