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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 96 20:20 WET
From:      uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard lockout on 2.x.x
Message-ID:  <m0tohh7-000CeZC@nemesis.lonestar.org>

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[1]Ohh, sorry, I've seen this mentioned here before so I guess I thought
[1]it was a well known problem.  I'm using syscon and when flipping to a
[1]different vt you'll get locked out.  It appears to happen when there
[1]is also SCSI activity.  I've seen it both on machines with PS/2 keyboards,
[1]and standard AT keyboards.  SCSI cards have been Adaptec or Buslogic.
[1]
[1]Only way I've found is to rlogin and re-boot but I thought someone
[1]mentioned having a work-around once.

I haven't seen this problem in 2.1.0, but used to see it.  I could
get the console alive again by unplugging and replugging the keyboard
cable.   It was as though the computer felt it was caught up and the
keyboard refused to generate anything new until the CPU did
something for the keyboard (which it didn't).  Unplugging it broke
the stalemate.   Since I haven't seen it in 2.1.0, I haven't looked
into the issue further.

Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"What are we going to do tonite?"
or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net           |"Same thing we do every night:
	  ^------(this is the fastest route)| Try to annoy Microsoft!"
or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem	    | - Gatesy and the Brain




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