From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 13 21:48:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EDC14F91 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00388; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908140443.VAA00388@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: "Ron Klinkien" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 4.0 keyboard input! In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:49:12 MDT." <199908140149.TAA12820@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:43:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <000001bee5f0$c467c7c0$0264a8c0@.demon.nl> "Ron Klinkien" writes: > : After building a few succesfull 4.0 releases (last cvsupped on 13 aug 99), > : the keyboard is acting very strange, i cannot login, > : i get only strange characters, and when I hit CTRL I get: > : > : load: 0.04 cmd: login242 [ttyin] 0.01u 0.03s 0% 772K > : load: 0.04 cmd: login242 [ttyin] 0.01u 0.03s 0% 772K > : load: 0.04 cmd: login242 [ttyin] 0.01u 0.03s 0% 772K > > I get that too from time to time. I think that the boot blocks are > putting the keyboard into an odd state since I sometimes can't break > into the boot sequence to boot an alternate kernel. So far it has > been confined to my Sony VAIO. Never could come up with a good test > case for it, however.... It's not the boot blocks doing anything explicit; they just use the BIOS. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message