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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news-relay.ncren.net!newz.oit.unc.edu!usenet From: Jan Borgersen <borg@techie.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: CAPSLOCK hangs ValuePoint Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 01:50:55 -0500 Organization: UNC Computer Science Lines: 25 Message-ID: <32F6DC4F.41C67EA6@techie.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: baldhead.cs.unc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) CC: borgerse@cs.unc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35301 I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.6 on an IBM ValuePoint 466DX. Whenever I boot into FreeBSD, whether its from the installation boot floppy or the installed OS, I find that hitting the CAPSLOCK will hang the active session. I can still access the machine through a telnet session from another host, but I am unable to do anything at the keyboard attached directly to the machine. I have seen this on two separate ValuePoint machines, so I am inclined to believe that FreeBSD is not communicating correctly with the ValuePoint BIOS. This problem does not occur under Dos, Windows, or OS/2. Has anyone else seen this problem, or is anyone aware of IBM bios levels specifically supported by FreeBSD? thanks... -j _______________________________ Jan Martin Borgersen borgerse@cs.unc.edu http://www.cs.unc.edu/~borgerse