From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 14 17:48:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA19239 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:48:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA19233 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:48:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA29481; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma029479; Fri Feb 14 17:48:02 1997 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA08810; Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:48:01 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199702150148.RAA08810@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Valuepoints & CAPSLOCK In-Reply-To: <199702131812.TAA28894@ravenock.cybercity.dk> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= at "Feb 13, 97 07:12:14 pm" To: sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk (Søren Schmidt) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 17:48:01 -0800 (PST) Cc: borgerse@cs.unc.edu, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Whenever I hit the CAPSLOCK key (and sometimes when I hit one > > of the CTRL keys) FreeBSD hangs the active session. > > This problem is fixed in 2.2 and -current, its due to an interrupt > getting lost somehow (the reason is not really understood yet).. This happens on my machine while running X sometimes. The fix is: echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem I set up an alias "aaa" for this command; you can usually find an 'a' and a blank line to cut & paste with the mouse. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com