Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:18:36 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard locking up on 7-RELEASE/amd64 Message-ID: <1207869516.83528.7.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <CFFDE27E-DAA6-414B-9BF8-5671A1311B4A@lunenburg.org> References: <CFFDE27E-DAA6-414B-9BF8-5671A1311B4A@lunenburg.org>
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On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:07 -0500, H. Wade Minter wrote: > I have a Dell Optiplex 755, with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip. I have > installed 7-RELEASE/amd64 on it. 2GB of RAM, 6GB of swap. > > The install went fine, but post-install I'm running into a problem > where the USB keyboard will just lock up. I can still ping and SSH > into the system, but after about 2 minutes of activity, the keyboard > becomes nonresponsive. > > I can move the USB plug to a different port, and see that it's > recognize, and the keyboard comes back, but a couple of minutes later, > it locks again. > > I've checked with things in the BIOS, but can't find any setting that > makes a difference. I've tried both the 4BSD and ULE scheduler, no > changes. > > Any thoughts or known issues that would explain this? When the lockup > happens, there's nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg to indicate a > problem. > > The only other clues are that sometimes, right before it locks, it > will go into a repeat loop on a keypress, and it seems to be able to > be reliably triggered by switching virtual consoles (though not > exclusively). > > I've tried different keyboards, so it doesn't appear to be a hardware > issue. I have seen this happening with OptiPlex 740 and OpenSuSE 10.3. Updating the BIOS on the OptiPlex fixed the problem. In my case, I was able to find reports of this behavior on the Dell's Linux forums, so it certainly was not limited to my specimen. I do realize that your machine is different, so YMMV. > > Thoughts? > > --Wade > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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