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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!hilly!peter
- From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 keyboard problems on laptop...
- Message-ID: <peter.713629934@hilly>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 14:32:14 GMT
- References: <peter.713456527@hilly>
- Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England.
- Lines: 19
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- peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) writes:
-
- >The keyboard is supposed to work like any other, and they are running
- >commercial *NIX on it OK. Anyone seen this ? I have looked around in
- >pccons.c and the like, tries checking return codes from the kbd_cmd
- >etc, but all seems OK.
-
- Found the solution !!!
-
- I took the kbdreset() function from i386/stand/kbd.c and replaced the
- code that resets the keyboard in pccons.c (pcprobe() ?), and all
- is now OK. The extra lines to "defeat gate a20" (will someone *please*
- explain what A20 is ?) seem to make the differnce.
-
- Have fun now,
- --
- Peter Galbavy
- Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
- Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
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