From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 05:13:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301BC16A41B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E324613C44B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from minimarmot@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so900787nzf for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:13:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=SgOkhJl4eBJay2CU3vTsnvBqMjuPWB5riraIfhbugG0=; b=NgBkOgiI7NaGcccnUrgxUzdIadMp01BShXQx6jAPj1W8sca4pJRH6Vfk9w00SyB0ewiCjz4rdbMah8G9z/3XEoCWif0n5CTMY5gjD36UZCsmLOkQNiW819nd86UCDrtPQ3JYwtMMLYMe81p/WhbNOQQIevn98U+3rHrxxidMXPM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sPEmswexmCt+NRQWhfop0BKTAvhI+yrmYWRgabdrumqkf5nsN+dlqNTSBYWgUBypcApRC/3h3KkmC5B2yjNRCb0eYuuPfrXrejvBMFZl1Xm6wgHWNwN6R/GmKVlrn8eVnoAei6Vbs/b5SS5DWEK0RaMEoi2xXu3le1lPHCXP0g4= Received: by 10.142.226.2 with SMTP id y2mr23409wfg.1196226825532; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:13:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.14.9 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:13:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47d0403c0711272113u769d682boff78054b8b57d233@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:45 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0711270919q43bccf86ob409bca5cc99fd40@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47d0403c0711270919q43bccf86ob409bca5cc99fd40@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: spontaneous failure to deliver keystrokes X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:47 -0000 On 11/27/07, Ben Kaduk 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