Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:11:16 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: "Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyobard lockups Message-ID: <19990514171116.D1367@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <002601be9db8$041b64c0$0264a8c0@kaffesoft.com> References: <002601be9db8$041b64c0$0264a8c0@kaffesoft.com>
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Brian D. McGrew wrote: > I'm having a mysterious problem with my keyboard locking up. I'm > not quite sure if this is a hardware problem or a software problem. I'm > using 2.2.6-RELEASE, on a Dell Poweredge 2300 (PII-233, 64Mb, 9GB). I've seen this as well, on a -stable system. If I unplug the keyboard and plug it back in, all is well, which suggests it may well be a hardware problem, in my case. Have you tried that, if possible? (On a laptop or something that may not be easy...) > When this happens, I no keyobard at all. I have to telnet in from > another machine and do a su root -c 'halt' and reboot it. The funny thing > is that it won't start the halt process UNTIL I hit a key on the CONSOLE! > Wierd, huh? > > Can anyone offer any insights to wither or not this is a FreeBSD > (Kernel?) problem, or a hardware issue; cause I'm about clueless at this > point. I'm suspecting hardware in my case, I *think* I've only seen the problem since I got this new keyboard. (Damn nice as well, except this lockup problem. Backticks occasionally appear from nowhere under X, and *only* under X, which is annoying, but since I never get it when I'm not under X I'm suspecting X is causing that, but I won't bore you all with that at 5pm on a Friday afternoon.) -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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