From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 10:26:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA25982 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:26:47 -0700 Received: from pcca71.gallaudet.edu (root@pcca71.gallaudet.edu [134.231.56.107]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA25977 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:26:44 -0700 Received: (from jon@localhost) by pcca71.gallaudet.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00485; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 13:29:10 GMT Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 13:29:08 +0000 () From: Basket Case To: Brian AGENT GORDON COLE Atkins cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up In-Reply-To: <199510040838.EAA09332@acmex.gatech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Brian AGENT GORDON COLE Atkins wrote: > > > > > > 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). > I notice that when I turned off all screen savers, i havent had any locking problems. If it happens again, I'll post it here. I dont think it should happen again as I've switched to xwindows w/o screen saver... Jon