From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Feb 13 10:10:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28042 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28027 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:10:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA28894; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:12:15 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199702131812.TAA28894@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: Valuepoints & CAPSLOCK In-Reply-To: <199702131645.LAA11940@gamella.cs.unc.edu> from Jan Borgersen at "Feb 13, 97 11:45:47 am" To: borgerse@cs.unc.edu (Jan Borgersen) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:12:14 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jan Borgersen who wrote: > > Is anyone running FreeBSD 2.1.6 on an IBM Valuepoint? (these are the > most available machines in my lab....) > > I've seen this on two 4dx2/66's ... > > Whenever I hit the CAPSLOCK key (and sometimes when I hit one > of the CTRL keys) FreeBSD hangs the active session. This problem is fixed in 2.2 and -current, its due to an interrupt getting lost somehow (the reason is not really understood yet).. > I can still telnet in to the machine, so the entire system is > not hung, but I can no longer do any work at the computer itself. > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any BIOS incompatibilities > b/w FreeBSD and the Valuepoint line. I havn't heard of any (yet)... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..