From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 10:57:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA06085 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA06080 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by ref.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12609 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA06545; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:51:07 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:51:07 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199606191751.LAA06545@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: aarond@btc.adaptec.com (Aaron Dailey), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS/Valuepoint and keyboard hang on install In-Reply-To: <199606191733.KAA13235@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199606190337.VAA27603@btc.btc.adaptec.com> <199606191733.KAA13235@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > My experience is that every key does nothing past a certain point. > > I tried bouncing the num lock key during boot up - right after the > > uncompressing kernel message the num lock light stops toggling, and > > other keys don't work. > > [ VALUABLE CLUE ] > > Disable the internal and external caches on your machine; this is > probably only necessary for the actual install. Umm, this is 'expected' behavior for at least part of the probe when everything is being reset. However, the num-lock should 'start' working soon after (10-15 seconds at the most). Nate