From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 01:38:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA00936 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:38:26 -0700 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu (root@anvil.gatech.edu [130.207.165.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA00925 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:38:22 -0700 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt4722a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id EAA04967; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 04:38:16 -0400 From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) Received: (gt4722a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id EAA09332; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 04:38:15 -0400 Message-Id: <199510040838.EAA09332@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up To: jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 04:38:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Basket Case" at Oct 3, 95 00:42:22 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 829 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > I have noticed a problem with 2.1.0-950928 freebsd snap locking up and > someone told me that this was reported a few times. After investigating > this I have noticed that this seems to occur when the green screen saver > comes online, and when I disable it (by pressing a key) and switching > consoles -- poof, the keyboard locks up. But the computer continues > to work fine without any problems... > > My solution was to disable the green screen saver... am wondering if > there are any revelancy between the two? > we just had this problem on my friend's machine, which we just installed 2.1.0-950928 on today. But he was typing at the time so there's no way the screen saver was coming on, and he is using snake instead of green. At the time it locked, he had just changed vttys(he had 7 going at the time).