From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 7 19:10:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19717 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from toad.async.org (hun-al1-07.ix.netcom.com [205.184.6.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19695; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:10:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dono@async.org) Received: from localhost (dono@localhost) by toad.async.org (8.9.1a+ysyi1/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id VAA00763; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:09:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:09:15 -0600 (CST) From: Pilo Phlat To: Rakesh Vidyadharan cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard (PS/2?) problems (follow-up) In-Reply-To: <369573AE.A236C539@geocities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Rakesh Vidyadharan wrote: >I had that problem a long time ago. My keyboard used to freeze up every >day, and I would have to switch the PC off and then on to get to work >again. The problem went away when I used a commercial X-server, which >leads me to believe that it is essentially a problem with your X-server, >and not with you keyboard. Perhaps, except that I am not running an X server. My problems are at the console.. which is why I mentioned syscons and switching vty's, not using the "Zoom" feature of an X server. I can reproduce the problem by rapidly switching vty's (using alt-Fkey). Just hold down your alt key, while pounding on the Fkeys corresponding to the enabled vty's in /etc/ttys. After about a minute or two of bashing the keys, the console/keyboard should freeze (well, at least in my case). Of course, this problem was noticed after several days worth of regular tty-switching, not by pounding on the keys from boredom :) In the mean time, I've ordered some more Microsoft(R) Natural(R)(TM)(SM) 3|337(SM)(TM)(R) keyboards to do some more testing (I don't have another 2.2.8R machine to test on). Woopie. -d KeyID 1024/570E72C5 Fingerprint 8A 74 C8 E4 A8 8D 00 FE 01 EF 9F BB 75 38 17 6F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message