Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:19:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@sidwell.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PS/Valuepoint -- lose keyboard using syscons Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.950717120313.8572A-100000@gateway.us.sidwell.edu>
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In our cluster of FreeBSD systems, we're running a 486/66 IBM Ps/Valuepoint with 24 megs of ram and a 540 meg conner HD. The system comes iwth an onboard video card (S3 misc) and hd controller, plus ps/2 mouse and keyboard. FreeBSD runs fine on the system (we isntalled freebsd on the 540 from and existing machine, and moved it over). On booting, we found a small problem -- the keyoard freezes on boot. It can freeze as early as the sc0 discovery at probetime, or as late as several minutes after boot when a user is logged in. We did all the normal debugging -- removed extraneous cards (in this case, only n SMC ethernet card.) No luck. All thist time, the display works fine, just nothing on the keyboard works. The numlock light is stuck on (or off depending on when it locked.) We recompiled the kernel and switched to pcvt, and it works fine (although we prefer sc0.) A similar Compaq next to it with PD/2 keyboard/mouse works fine. The boot prompts/load prompts also receive keypresses fine as far as we can tell (eg., the wd(0,a)/kernel prompt works.) The keyboard also doens't work under X11 unless we're runnintg pcvt. Currently we're using pcvt and xdm on the system, but would like to at least know why sc0 doesn't work. any advice about siilar problems or such would be welcome. Robert Watson rwatson@sidwell.edu http://www.sidwell.edu/~rwatson/ The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.
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