Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:06:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mpp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird syscons keyboard behaviour Message-ID: <199909171206.IAA16879@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Mike Pritchard wrote: > I've noticed some odd syscons keyboard behaviour over the past > month or so. Sometimes I get a vty that outputs PC graphics characters > for all of my input. This is always at a "login:" prompt. I think > I can duplicate this by typing a bunch of garbage at a login prompt, > but I don't feel like trying to test it right now and have to > reboot my main machine. > > I just saw this again after a clean boot with a 24 hour old kernel. > (built 07:00 a.m. 9/16/99 CST from a few hour old CVSup). > The boot went fine, but when I started typing at the login prompt, > all I got was garbage. I couldn't switch vty's or anything. > I just gave up and hit the big red button. After the reboot, > everything was fine. > > I think this might be some kind of timing problem. I was starting > to type in my username right away when I saw the boot was finishing, > and if I recall the past incidents correctly, I may have been > doing the same thing. > > I've seen this probably 4 or 5 times in the past month, maybe > 6 weeks. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? Aye, I've seen it infrequently also. I've not spent any time trying to recreate the problem because it happens so infrequently. The system I've seen it on is an Intel 200MHz Pentium notebook (ChemUSA) also with PS/2 style input. I seem to recall seeing it for more than a month, maybe the last few (3 or 4) months. Dan Eischen eischen@vigrid.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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