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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:14:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Heggere Raj <hraj@iphase.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Keyboard Lock-up Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326201321.4619B-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <3338EDB6.442B@iphase.com>

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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."




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