From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 28 13:52:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA08734 for current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:52:59 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA08707 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:52:33 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA08101 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:52:17 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA26716 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:52:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA11897 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:38:43 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511282138.WAA11897@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Theory Failed: screen vs keyboard lock-up To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 22:38:42 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Frank Durda IV" at Nov 28, 95 10:16:00 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 626 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Durda IV wrote: > > Uh, then why did the originator say this in the mail I responded to: > > [1]that it always happens when I switch screens during disk activity. > ********************************************************** Perhaps i'm confusing it. Yes, ok, the "set LEDs" hang is a very well-known problem. It's primarily caused by abusing the keyboard serial line (which has been uni-directional originally) as a bi- directional line. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)