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From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Hardware Status
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 13:30:12 +0200
Organization: Pressimage, France
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In article <40orni$6os@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>jerijian@cloudburst.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) wrote:
>] Where can I get status on current hardware support and support in
>] the works? In particular, I need to know when the PS/2 mouse driver will
>] no longer conflict with the video console (I find this very strange and
>] discouraging in an otherwise wonderful OS). I also need to know if IDE
>] ATAPI CD-ROMs will be supported anytime soon.
>The PS/2 mouse driver conflicts because if you try and do anything
>with it without a PS/2 mouse port on board, you hang.
>The Problem being that it uses the second channel on the keyboard
>controller, and not all systems support it. Without a reasonable
>way to probe for existance, this is going to contiune to be an
>issue.
Did anyone ever try to check out how MSD (the MS-DOS Diagnostics program)
or MOUSE.COM find out about the existence of a PS/2 mouse without breaking
everything?
I guess I'll have to learn to read 80x86 code... [and find a disassembler].
Jacques.
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