>> I have an odd machine which doesn't work right in the brave new APIC
>> world (for example, VESA mode can draw windows and menus but not paint
>> the cursor...?).
> you wouldn't happen to have usb legacy support enabled in bios, would you?
That's a good suggestion. I saw that and disabled it, and also tried
*nousbprobe on the theory that these days usbstart happens automatically
whereas it didn't before, and I'm not using USB for anything on this
machine. No dice.
Further details:
1. 9load says "pcirouting: 8086/24C1 at pin 1, irq 10". I think that's
the IDE controller. Is that a complaint, a warning, ...? Since one
of the three USB controllers was ending up on IRQ 10, I was hopeful
that skipping them might help, but it had no effect.
2. While rio comes up in VESA mode and can paint, the mouse cursor is
invisible and keyboard input doesn't work--with one very interesting
exception. ^T^Tr doesn't reboot the machine, but Control-Alt-Delete
does ("cpu0: exiting")--and this isn't happening somehow below Plan 9
because the key I'm using for Control is the one labelled "Caps Lock"
on the physical keyboard. What could be responsible for that?
3. Turning off "USB Boot" in the BIOS doesn't help either.
This isn't a show-stopper for me as long as *nomp continues to work,
but it sure is odd.
Dave Eckhardt
