I also found: http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/ Although it's for 5.3 setting the suggested options (bypassing the kbd check) and disabling acpi allow it to boot to the install menu: set hw.acpi.skip_timer_override="1" set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
Now I'm trying to tackle Freebsd's partition manager. What I wouldn't do to be able to do this with "fdisk /dev/hda" --- "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | From: Aaron Job Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | Thanks! I'll start there. > > I googled for: R3000Z freebsd > and found: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/67745 > > Within that you can see what is wrong with our > notebooks: the keyboard > processor hangs on an apparently legitimate command. > > In particular, see: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=88636+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-amd64/20040704.freebsd-amd64 > and use the wayback machine to look at the > description of the AT > keyboard hardware: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20041011052117/http://www.clipx.net/ng/hardware/ng1462d.php > > My understanding is that the workaround is in > FreeBSD (the PR is > closed). Perhaps you need to supply a boot flag of > some kind to > enable the workaround. Too bad the PR does not > explain this. > > There may be important hints within: > http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/ > It appears to be outdated. Do look at the place > where it says > hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9" > *maybe* that is the way to enable the workaround. > > That page points to an interesting thread: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-March/004018.html > > If I were a FreeBSD user, I'd want the workaround to > be documented > clearly. One place would be in the PR. Perhaps it > is documented in > some place like the release notes. > _______________________________________________ > Linuxr3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > _______________________________________________ Linuxr3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.kdewebdev.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
