On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:48:08PM -0500, Charles Fultz wrote:
> > Back from Christmas vacation now. Working on the sun4cdm problem that
> > many people are reporting...the thing where certain SPARCstation 5s and
> > 10s have keyboard map problems. I think that it's because I enabled PCI
> > and PS/2 keyboard support in that kernel, but I'm not sure. I took a look
> > at what Debian does for their sun4cdm kernel and they seem to do about the
> > same as I, but have a totally seperate kernel for the PCI-enabled sun4cdm
> > machines.
>
> I would be almost certain that the PCI enabling is causing the
> problem. The older sun4[cdm] machines have nothing to do with PCI,
> and therefore will barf on the PCI code. Remove it from the kernel
> config (CONFIG_PCI=n) and I bet the problem would be solved.
Yeah, I know. The reason it's there is (a) it's an option and (b) it must
be there because there's a sun4cdm machine that *is* PCI out there,
otherwise why would it be there?
I can't test it here, which is why I asked the list.
> > Anyone else figured out anything regarding this problem?
>
> I'm going to try building a kernel and see if it works.
If you have Debian installed and working, rebuild the kernel and enable
the PCI option. Reboot with that and see if the keyboard is screwed up.
If so, I think we'll have found the problem.
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David Cantrell | david@slackware.com *
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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