From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 20:14:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA02153 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:14:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA02148 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:14:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA04654; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:14:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:14:28 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Heggere Raj cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard Lock-up Problem In-Reply-To: <3338EDB6.442B@iphase.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Heggere Raj wrote: > We have FreeBSD 2.1.6 installed on a PentiumPro box. > Every thing seems to run fine except that once in a > while, quite unexpectedly, the keyboard locks up. It's > a total lock-up too, in the sense, you can't switch > between the virtual screens, Ctl-C doesn't work, actually, > any sort of input from the keyboard becomes impossible. > > Based on some posting on the FreeBSD newsgroup, we took > out enries for PS/2 and bus mice from the configuration > file a few days back as a remedy to this proble. But, we > are not sure if this indeed is the "real" fix. > > Even though I have logged the problem to the FreeBSD > database, I'm also posting this here in the hope that > some one who has already seen and fixed this sort of > problem could help me. > > Any helpful pointers toward fixing this problem will be > much appreciated. Thanks. Try adding options ASYNCH to your kernel config and recompiling. I had the same problem and this helped. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."