From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 03:08:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2577F106566C for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0344D8FC14 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.73]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A41C16B4A8; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:40:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:39:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:39:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@noos.6dollardialup.com To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First character typed lost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:04 -0000 On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Warren Block wrote: > On a Gateway ML6732 notebook, FreeBSD 9-stable is working great. Video works > (i915), sound works, the only thing that isn't quite right is that the first > character typed after the FreeBSD kernel loads is lost. After that, it works > normally. This makes entering a passphrase more challenging. These are total shots in the dark: 1. It is entirely normal (and generally thought desirable) for the screensaver to swallow the first character when it is running -- see if this is worth further investigation by changing screensavers or disabling it altogether. 2. check /etc/issue to see if there is a trailing ANSI sequence that might eat a character. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266