Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 12:23:06 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@jake.lodgenet.com> To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: update on keyboard lockup with SNAP Message-ID: <199506271723.MAA21424@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 1995 11:18:08 EDT." <m0sQFvM-0000yLC@bagend.atl.ga.us>
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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. I had a this problem about a year ago on a bsdi box. I could run stuff on the machine, and I could type for a while, but eventually the keyboard would just lock up. I ended up replacing the keyboard bios on the motherboard and everything started working. > -- > Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> > coordinator, usenet volunteer votetakers > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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