From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 26 10:15:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA23093 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:15:09 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23084 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:15:06 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA04619; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:15:11 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506261715.KAA04619@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: update on keyboard lockup with SNAP To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 10:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jun 26, 95 11:18:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1177 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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