From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 17 4:43: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mpp.pro-ns.net (pppdsle45.mpls.uswest.net [216.160.23.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE671541F for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:43:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.pro-ns.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA00356 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 06:43:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199909171143.GAA00356@mpp.pro-ns.net> Subject: Weird syscons keyboard behaviour To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 06:43:45 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've noticed some odd syscons keyboard behaviour over the past month or so. Sometimes I get a vty that outputs PC graphics characters for all of my input. This is always at a "login:" prompt. I think I can duplicate this by typing a bunch of garbage at a login prompt, but I don't feel like trying to test it right now and have to reboot my main machine. I just saw this again after a clean boot with a 24 hour old kernel. (built 07:00 a.m. 9/16/99 CST from a few hour old CVSup). The boot went fine, but when I started typing at the login prompt, all I got was garbage. I couldn't switch vty's or anything. I just gave up and hit the big red button. After the reboot, everything was fine. I think this might be some kind of timing problem. I was starting to type in my username right away when I saw the boot was finishing, and if I recall the past incidents correctly, I may have been doing the same thing. I've seen this probably 4 or 5 times in the past month, maybe 6 weeks. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? This is a Compaq AMD K6-2/400 machine. PS/2 style keyboard input to the motherboard. I'll be glad to supply any further details. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message