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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cdc2.cdc.net!newsfeed.concentric.net!news-master!not-for-mail From: Slater@cris.com (Rick Slater) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Kernel config problem Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:33:47 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5h4i5b$djg@chronicle.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: viking.cris.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37660 I recently purchased a Dell Dimension XPS M200s. It is a 200 MHz pentium with EIDE drive and an IDE cdrom drive. I was able to boot directly from the FreeBSD 2.1.0 cdrom and install FreeBSD without any difficulties. However, the generic kernel which is installed doesn't support IDE cdrom drives, and so I rebuilt the kernel to include that support. I used a configuration file from another machine (based on a 486 chip and with only ISA slots), but something very strange happened: The screensaver not only blanked the screen; it also "blanked" the keyboard! Once the screen blanked, none of the keys which should have lit an l.e.d. did anything (Num lock, Caps lock, ...) and I couldn't get control back without hitting the reset switch (ctl-alt-del failed too). I switched back to the generic specification file and added the IDE cdrom support to it. The new kernel handles a blanked screen correctly. I have no scsi devices on the machine, but when I start removing them from the kernel, I get right back into the keyboard problem. This is driving me nuts. Has anyone run into this kind of behavior before? If you can point me in the right direction, you'd save me an awful lot of time. Right now, it appears that I may have no choice but to remove one scsi device at a time, rebuild the kernel, and test the screen blanker after each build. That's about as much fun as watching grass grow. Thanks for any assistance. Regards, Rick Slater Correct email address: Rslater@concentric.net == Banner email address changed to avoid spam. All mail to it will bounce.