Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 17:01:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@cs.rice.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: frozen virtual terminals on Dell system Message-ID: <XFMail.970507170638.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <199705072127.QAA04248@cs.rice.edu>
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Hi Mark W. Krentel; On 07-May-97 you wrote: ... > That's interesting. I once had a keyboard lock up after disconnecting > it for 1 day to use on another machine. Machine is a PPro 200 on > Intel Venus VS440FX board (apparently with Intel's own BIOS) running > 2.1.7. We borrowed the keyboard for > 24 hours, and on reconnecting, > all keystrokes were ignored. > > We ended up rebooting, which worked and also kicked off the screen > saver. There was nothing in the logs to indicate trouble, but just > before it rebooted, I saw a SIGPIPE messge on the console (couldn't > see it before because of screen saver). ... This is a feature, I think. The keyboard is not supposed to unplub and re-plug while the system is powderd up. Most do, but not necessarily. If something wants to download or configure in the keyboard at power up, it will not have it. some keyboard/motherboard combinations want to. Simon
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