On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:01:24 -0700  "Michael L. Hitch" wrote:

> On Nov 18, 11:37pm, "Aaron J. Grier" wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Simon Burge wrote:
> > 
> > > At the moment, I believe there's only one know bug: A machine with the
> > > `dc' serial driver (the 2100, 3100 and 5000/200) will hang during boot
> > > if it's using a serial console.
> > 
> > I hope this gets fixed for the real release?  :)
> 
>   I think this is slightly mis-leading:
> 
>   The problem is that a 5000/200 will hang when running with a serial console
> AND there is no mouse connected.  [The driver tries to initialize the mouse
> and probably is hanging waiting for the non-existent mouse to respond.]  I'm
> fairly certain [I don't have a mouse on my 5000/200 to verify this] that it
> will function normally when a mouse is present.
> 
>   This should not normally be a problem with the 3100, since there will
> either be a mouse connected, or a mouse loop-back connector, and the dc
> driver won't hang.

Dang, my bad.  Sorry for the confusion folks.

Simon.