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In 5.x, a device hint is used instead of a device flag

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Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson (gavin.atkinson at ury dot york dot ac dot uk)
PR:		docs/66980
MFC after:	2 days
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Hiroki Sato 2004-08-28 19:04:43 +00:00
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@ -203,8 +203,10 @@
from working.</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Use the UserConfig utility (see
<filename>HARDWARE.TXT</filename>) and disable the probing
<para>Set the hints
<quote>hint.mcd.0.disabled="1"</quote> and
<quote>hint.mcd.1.disabled="1"</quote>
in the third stage boot loader to disable the probing
of the <devicename>mcd0</devicename> and
<devicename>mcd1</devicename> devices. Generally speaking,
you should only leave the devices that you will be using
@ -218,16 +220,17 @@
</question>
<answer>
<para>Your card is probably on a different IRQ from what is
specified in the kernel configuration. The ed driver does
specified in the <filename>/boot/device.hints</filename> file. The ed driver does
not use the `soft' configuration by default (values entered
using EZSETUP in DOS), but it will use the software
configuration if you specify <literal>?</literal> in the IRQ field of your
kernel config file.</para>
configuration if you specify <literal>-1</literal> in the hints
for the interface.</para>
<para>Either move the jumper on the card to a hard
configuration setting (altering the kernel settings if
necessary), or specify the IRQ as <literal>-1</literal> in UserConfig or <literal>?</literal>
in your kernel config file. This will tell the kernel to
necessary), or specify the IRQ as <literal>-1</literal>
by setting the hint <quote>hint.ed.0.irq="-1"</quote>
This will tell the kernel to
use the soft configuration.</para>
<para>Another possibility is that your card is at IRQ 9,
@ -244,9 +247,9 @@
<answer>
<para>Older IBM laptops use a non-standard keyboard
controller, so you must tell the keyboard driver (atkbd0) to
go into a special mode which works on the ThinkPads. Change
the atkbd0 'Flags' to 0x4 in UserConfig and it should work
fine. (Look in the Input Menu for 'Keyboard'.)</para>
go into a special mode which works on the ThinkPads. Set the
hint <quote>hint.atkbd.0.flags="4"</quote> and it should work
fine.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
@ -268,23 +271,8 @@
<answer>
<para>This is a known problem, and will hopefully be fixed
in the future. In order to get your system installed at
all, boot with the <option>-c</option> option into
UserConfig, but <emphasis>don't</emphasis> use the pretty
visual mode but the plain old CLI mode. Type:</para>
<screen><userinput>eisa 12</userinput>
<userinput>quit</userinput></screen>
<para>at the prompt. (Instead of `quit', you might also
type `visual', and continue the rest of the configuration
session in visual mode.) While it's recommended to compile
a custom kernel, dset now also understands to save
this value.</para>
<para>Refer to the FAQ topic 5.3 for an explanation of the
problem, and for how to continue. Remember that you can
find the FAQ on your local system in /usr/share/doc/FAQ,
provided you have installed the `doc' distribution.</para>
all, set the hint <quote>hw.eisa_slots="12"</quote> in the
third stage loader.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
@ -297,16 +285,7 @@
<para>Your machine doesn't like the new
<literal>i586_copyout</literal> and
<literal>i586_copyin</literal> code for some reason. To
disable this, boot the installation boot floppy and when it
comes to the very first menu (the choice to drop into kernel
UserConfig mode or not) choose the command-line interface
(<quote>expert mode</quote>) version and type the following
at it:</para>
<screen><userinput>flags npx0 1</userinput></screen>
<para>Then proceed normally to boot. This will be saved
into your kernel, so you only need to do it once.</para>
disable this, set the hint <quote>hint.npx.0.flags="1"</quote></para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
@ -328,8 +307,8 @@
<para>With Compaq being always a little different from other
systems, they do not announce their floppy drive in the CMOS
RAM of an Aero notebook. Therefore, the floppy disk driver
assumes there is no drive configured. Go to the UserConfig
screen, and set the Flags value of the fdc0 device to 0x1.
assumes there is no drive configured. Set the hint
<quote>hint.fdc.0.flags="1"</quote>
This pretends the existence of the first floppy drive (as a
1.44 MB drive) to the driver without asking the CMOS at
all.</para>