From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 7 07:49:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA26865 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from trapdoor.aracnet.com (root@trapdoor.aracnet.com [204.188.47.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA26860 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from shelob.aracnet.com (shelob.aracnet.com [204.188.47.2]) by trapdoor.aracnet.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA06756; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:48:39 -0800 Recieved: from localhost by shelob.aracnet.com (8.7.4) id HAA03104; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:50:09 -0800 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie To: Kazutaka YOKOTA cc: mobile@freebsd.org, Nate Williams Subject: Re: Tecra 730 keyboard problem update In-Reply-To: <199701070635.PAA05864@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > > >I did notice each time that there was a "click" of the disk drive > >almost as if there was a disk sync just as the keyboard locked up. > > I have little idea why the disk activity occurs like this. Well, > syslogd may be logging something (to /var/log/messages by default). > Do you see any unusual log messages? However, the syscons/psm/kbdio > drivers in 2.2-BETA don't send log messages to syslogd after the > system boot by default. So, even if you find something, it does not > directly come from the drivers. > > I have been runing for a while now and have had several lockups. They all seem to occur while there is disk activity which leads me to suspect a lost interrupt. I am currently reinstalling and will give straight 2.2-Beta a try to see if it behaves any differently. I thank you for your responses and understand that it is difficult to give any firm advice on a problem so poorly defined. Thanks beattie