Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:45 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spontaneous failure to deliver keystrokes Message-ID: <47d0403c0711272113u769d682boff78054b8b57d233@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0711270919q43bccf86ob409bca5cc99fd40@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0711270919q43bccf86ob409bca5cc99fd40@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/27/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently put down a fresh install of 7.0-beta2 on my machine that was once > tracking HEAD, and just now I was typing into an xterm and all my > keystrokes were lost. In fact, the machine (laptop) does not respond > to any keyboard input at the moment, though the mouse works > fine and I can ssh in. > > I'm going to leave the machine in this state for a while, in case there's > a way to frob at kbdmux that I don't know about (yet). > > I am inclined to suspect the hardware on this machine, since it's > already four years old and showing signs of age/wear, but I'll > throw this out there in case someone else is also seeing > weirdness (and who knows, maybe there is a way to > remotely frob kbdmux and I'll find out). > For the archives: a reboot seems to have refreshed things, though my half-baked fiddlings with kbdcontrol had no effect. This is a Dell Inspiron 8500 with an i8042 keyboard controller. -Ben Kaduk
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