From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 9 01:16:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA20138 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 9 May 1997 01:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isy.liu.se (root@isy.liu.se [130.236.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA20114 for ; Fri, 9 May 1997 01:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kili.isy.liu.se (kili.isy.liu.se [130.236.27.25]) by isy.liu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA14106 for ; Fri, 9 May 1997 10:15:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baloo.isy.liu.se (ppp0.isy.liu.se) by kili.isy.liu.se (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA22028; Fri, 9 May 1997 10:14:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970509081713.00668494@kili.isy.liu.se> X-Sender: kentp@kili.isy.liu.se (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:17:13 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Kent Palmkvist Subject: Re: frozen virtual terminals (not just Dell systems) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id BAA20132 Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 22:40 1997-05-07 -0700, you wrote: > > >Well then, that's likely not going to help my case much, then. :-) It >seems that this is a Dell-specific "feature". They like to do some >things their own way, and I wouldn't be surprised a bit if they made >some funky half-compatible keyboard mod. > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net I don't agree that this is a Dell-specific "feature". I have also had problems with a locking keyboard. The machine is a Kopak (Sager, Prostar etc) 486DX100 laptop. I had problems with locking keyboard if I pressed the extra FN key (used to alter brightness, contrast, volume etc) while running 2.0.x. It got fixed sometime during 2.1.x branch I think. Now with the new 2.2.1 it sometimes locks during installation (have run it multiple times). This happened last time when switching virtual consoles. Another sure keyboard lock is to start XFree. /Kent Kent Palmkvist email: kentp@isy.liu.se Dept.of Electrical Engineering http://www.tde.isy.liu.se/~kentp Linköping University 581 83 LINKÖPING phone: +46 13 281347 Sweden fax: +46 13 139282