From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 04:48:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF2216A400 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:48:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4450443D46 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:48:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 5550 invoked by uid 507); 12 Apr 2006 14:48:20 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 12 Apr 2006 14:48:20 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:48:14 +1000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Regain control of keyboard 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: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:48:24 -0000 Some days ago I type "portupgrade -a" on a machine which had just got a clean install of FreeBSD v6, with gnome, kde, sound, graphics, etc. In other words, a desktop plaything. Every other hour or so process would stop at on options screen and wait for my input. Recently it has stopped accepting input from the keyboard. The mouse is still active. How do I get my keyboard working again? impatient