Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:02:16 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: f-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: (short story) dell inspiron 5000e & panic inducing keyboard loss Message-ID: <20010925230216.A32360@moo.holy.cow>
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has anybody experienced a temporary loss of keyboard on a laptop? i did. this is my story (sorry dick wolf). yesterday night while i had been trying to beat my own score of xpuzzletama on my dell i5000e, the keyboard suddenly stopped working. first i thought that might be due to load (port(s) were being compiled) and thus system was just unresponsive. but after waiting for load to go to negligible, keyboard wasn't still responding but mouse was... ...that's when i panicked. i was in pain just at the thought of sending computer for repairs as it is about/only <9 months old. the laptop, bottom right front-to-middle part, was quite warm/hot in part due to software make'ing, and perhaps in part due to being used for about 6 hours lying flat on heavy carpet. after quitting X, keyboard was still unresponsive on console. it was so even after 2 reboots. there was nothing unusual in kernel messages flying by in general, and related to "kbd" in particular... ...that's when even worse thoughts came to mind. i (hard) shut down the computer 3d time. flipped it upside down; "burped" it while holding w/ one hand; hit the keyboard, gently, to un-lodge if anything was lodged; waited for it cool down. after some passage of time, i tried to boot in windows me. mind you i had to press F1 as F2 was the default choice before. lo and behold! keyboard started responding. i quickly shut down windows and changed the devices that bios would to boot. put the "internal hard drive" from 1st position to "3d", after "floppy drive" and "cd drive". after fiddling w/ windows, i closed the computer & waited for next morning to experiment w/ freebsd... if necessary. and, when i tried in freebsd again, system behaved as if there were no problems... fsck run not withstanding. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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