From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 12:57:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA28780 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from global2000.net (ut-dialup-15.global2000.net [204.249.217.176]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA28752 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eagriff@localhost) by global2000.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) id PAA05251; Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:50:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric A. Griff" Message-Id: <199701082050.PAA05251@global2000.net> Subject: Re: keyboard lockup In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Jan 8, 97 02:10:55 am" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:46:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL29 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Eric A. Griff wrote: > > > Ever since I first installed FreeBSD (2.1.5) and up (now 3.0-current), > > I have had a problem with [PAUSE] & [SCROLL LOCK]. > > It will lock up the keyboard under certain circumstances. Usually when > > toggleing them without scrolling the sreen back, when the system is busy, and > > especially when that console is being written to still. > > Do I have something setup wrong? Any replys much appreciated. > > Pause doesn't generally do anything, but scroll lock does. Pushing scroll > lock on the console activates the scrollback feature. You have to turn it > off to get back the normal activity. > > Doug White | University of Oregon I do turn it off. It's then when it locks up. The curser comes back, then keyboard is dead. The scroll-lock light stays on, and I have to reset. Can't even get to ddb. Thanks Eric