Thanks! I'll start there. --- "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | From: Aaron Job Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | Has anyone had any luck installing Freebsd on our > | laptops? After selecting an option from the boot > menu > | (ie. Default, NO ACPI, Safemode) from the install > cd > | the laptop just turns off. This happened with 5.4 > and > | is still the case with 6.0. Is there something > | specific I have to do to even get it to boot to > the > | installer? > > I haven't tried FreeBSD, but I was reading the > release notes for 6.0 > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/relnotes-i386.html#NEW > and found this interesting item: > > The atkbd(4) driver now supports a 0x8 (bit 3) > flag to disable > testing the keyboard port during the device probe > as this can cause > hangs on some machines, specifically Compaq R3000Z > series amd64 > laptops. > > So somebody in the FreeBSD community cares about our > notebooks. > Perhaps you can track down who by looking in the CVS > logs of atkbd. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxr3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > _______________________________________________ Linuxr3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
