From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 09:46:03 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA26553 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:46:03 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA26547 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 09:46:02 -0700 Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.15) via UUCP id AA03341 ; Mon, 24 Jul 95 12:45:59 -0400 Received: (from jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA04045; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:35:53 -0400 From: Jan Isley Message-Id: <199507241635.MAA04045@bagend.atl.ga.us> Subject: Re: Random keyboard hangs w/ 2.0.5 on PC-Express 486's To: ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:35:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Guy Helmer" at Jul 22, 95 09:46:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 928 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Let me guess, you are using syscons and not pcvt? I had the same problem. Several people suggested trying a pcvt enabled kernel. I did and no more keyboard lockup... and I am starting to like pcvt. :) Guy Helmer wrote: > I've installed 2.0.5-ALPHA on on PC-Express 486DX/33 and 2.0.5-RELEASE on > two PC-Express 486DX/33's, and each of the PCs will randomly lock the > keyboard. I've found that telneting in and issuing a "kbdcontrol -r > normal < /dev/ttyv0" will free the keyboard, so maybe I'll just add that > command to root's crontab :-) It even happens when running X. The > systems have different models of keyboards. 1.1.5.1 used to work fine on > these systems. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance! I am guessing it is a problem with the syscons driver and some flavors of keyboard bios. This motherboard is an ASUS PVI-486AP4 but I have not taken the cover off to check which keyboard bios it uses yet.