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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix/386 2.3.1 on Monolithic motherboard
Summary: Try slowing it down
Message-ID: <297@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 15:17:23 GMT
References: <1988Nov28.184415.1424@ateng.ateng.com>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <1988Nov28.184415.1424@ateng.ateng.com>, chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
. We recently have had occasion to install Xenix/386 2.3.1 on a 386AT system
. based on a Monolithic System Corporation motherboard.
. 
. Or to try, anyway.
. 
. When booting the N1 floppy, everything works fine until the kernel is
. loaded. :-) Seriously: at the boot prompt the keyboard works, and during the
. kernel load from floppy the Caps Lock and Num Lock lights toggle correctly.
. But once the kernel load completes, Caps Lock and Num Lock -- along with the
. rest of the keyboard -- do nothing at all.


Try slowing down the computer.  If it works then I think there is a problem with
the keyboard io on the board.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.