Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:15:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update on keyboard lockup with SNAP Message-ID: <199506261715.KAA04619@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <m0sQFvM-0000yLC@bagend.atl.ga.us> from "Jan Isley" at Jun 26, 95 11:18:08 am
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> > It is definitely related to the number of keystrokes, sort of. > It just spent about two hours playing with the system with no > keyboard freeze. And then it occurred to me that when it locked > up before I was changing windows a lot but this time I had not. > So, with four virtual terminals logged in and one finger on the > ALT key, with something going in each window, like vmstat, top, > etc, I switched windows about once a second ... for about one > minute ... then the keyboard froze. Output from top continued > to the window I got stuck on. Nothing, not even lighting the > caps lock light worked from the keyboard after that... had to > hit the reset button. AHh.. okay, now you have given us something we can all go try. Okay everybody out there who likes to ``break code'' please lay on the alt key and bounce down F1->F4 once a second for a few hours and let me know how many of you wedge....:-) :-). I'll give it a test here later today when I am out in the burn bench area testing machines... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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