Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 02:25:46 +0000 From: dicen@hooked.net To: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" <gestur@islandia.is> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard/console hangs Message-ID: <32AF6D2A.446B9B3D@hooked.net> References: <3.0.32.19961212083456.009c8790@islandia.is>
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Ah, I have had the same problem before I started using the current source tree. Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: > > Greetings, > > We are facing some rather strange errors in our system > wich is running 2.1.6.1-RELEASE > > the hardware is: > p133, new triton2 chipset motherboard with HX430, pci svga videocard, > adaptec aha 2940uw, ibm compatible keyboard > I have the same hard disk controller Adaptec 2940UW with a Quantum FW drive. I have a PCI Matrox Millen. 4mb video card. Yes, I have an ibm keyboard, not windows 95. > the faults we are experiencing are: > > the console is hanging, the system runs normally, but the keyboard console > is freezing, so we cannot access the sytem directly on console, we can only > access it and work on it remotely via telnet. The time until the console > hangs, is variant, there is no pattern nor panic that the system goes by, > The console would hand for me as well in the last stable branch I used and a while with current. I believe it as 2.1.5 and 2.2 current that would hang. They (the developers) are now at 3.0 current. However, I could cause the hanging by switching virtual consoles a lot. If I did an ALT FI, ALT F2, ALT F1, ALT F3 kind of thing I was pretty sure to have a hung console. More correctly though I believe it was a hung keyboard. The keyboards Num Lock light would stay on even when I pressed number lock. They keyboard would lock up. They console screen would not. > only the console is freezing without any logic explanation we can find. > > Any hints or direction to fix this problem is greatly appreciated ! > > Kveđja > Sincerely > > Gestur Andrés Grjetarsson Islandia ISP Int. > Kerfisstjórn og fjármal. > Technical and financial management . Grensasvegur 7 > PoBox 9147 > gestur@islandia.is 129 Reykjavik > admin@islandia.is > ceo@islandia.is > http://www.islandia.is/~gestur info@islandia.is > http://www.islandia.is/skvopn help@islandia.is > > Programmers never die, they just GOSUB, without RETURN. dicen
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