Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 11:15:30 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: wc.bulte@chello.nl, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Miata console after 'halt' Message-ID: <20000604111530.A78087@freebie.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <14649.26030.594976.699497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 04:11:54PM -0400 References: <20000603130518.A73911@freebie.wbnet> <14649.26030.594976.699497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 04:11:54PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Wilko Bulte writes: > > I wonder if anybody has ever seen the following: > > > > Miata MX5 or Miata GL. Both run -current without any problems. Shutdown > > FreeBSD. > > > > Now the SRM console yells for every keystroke: "scancode foo not supported" > > or something close to that. Needless to say the (DEC) keyboard works just > > fine when FreeBSD is running. A reset is needed to get the SRM to work with > > the keyboard again. > > > > Not critical, but annoying. > > Yes, I see this. It hasn't been very high in my priority list. FWIW, > I don't think it happens with an AS200 or an AS600... > > Have you seen any keyboard related oddities when running X? A while Well, I almost never run X on my Alphas. My 21" tube is hooked up to a PeeCee ;-) > ago I noticed that if I had Xkbd enabled on my Miata GL at home, I'd > get a random ` (back-quote) characters appearing about every 500th > keypress. Turning putting XkbDisable in my /etc/XF86Config made the > problem go away -- I assumed it was just a bad keyboard. (BTW, > XkbDisable doesn't help the console problem you mention) I can try to see what happens using X. > Yesterday I fired up X (an old build of 3.3.4) on the UP1000 I'm UP1000 is a nice machine.. Hm. Means I really should get started getting Rawhide, Sable/DemiSable/Lynx in HARDWARE.TXT. UP1000 to follow asap after that. > working on (FreeBSD mostly works, BTW) and noticed that the keyboard > didn't work at all. In fact, I had to reboot the machine after > starting X in order to get the keyboard back. XkbDisable cures this > problem too.. Hmm. Sounds there is something quite wrong in the keyboard/console driver as far as some Alphas is concerned (?). -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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