Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:06:47 -0600 (CST) From: Pilo Phlat <dono@async.org> To: questions@feebsd.org, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Keyboard (PS/2?) problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812240155370.451-100000@toad.async.org>
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Hello, I have a PS/2 keyboard here, from "PC Concepts". It is the split-key (ergonomic), 107-key version (not the 109-key w/ touchpad). The keyboard is connected to a FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE machine, with syscons driver, psm driver for the PS/2 mouse, and so on (mail me if you need to see the entire kernel config). The problem is that somewhat randomly (I cannot repeat this on-demand), about every 2-3 days (sometimes not even 1 day, sometimes 4-5 days) of being up, the keyboard freezes. It is usually after switching virtual consoles (with alt+Fkey). I could not find a way to reset the keyboard after it froze, and had to reboot the machine remotely. When I un-plug the keyboard and plug it back in, the Num/Caps/Scroll lock LEDs flash, but the keyboard is still frozen. Only way I could get it back to work is by rebooting the machine. It seems, though, that this is a problem with the keyboard itself, not FreeBSD (I haven't verified this). I've had this problem with Linux and Windows 98 as well, but in those cases, simply un-plugging and plugging the keyboard back in fixes the problem. Assuming that this is a problem with the keyboard, is there way to prevent this somehow (I doubt it, but ...)? If not, is there any way to reset it, so that I could use the keyboard again without rebooting (something like /usr/sbin/kcon -R won't help, since I'm using the syscons driver, not pcvt)? If any of you readers have experienced a similar problem with the same kind of keyboard, or a different kind, I'd like to know. Thanks for your time. -d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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