From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 17 10:10:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AEA114E04 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 10:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:wYnI4TmiFaiNTro5FrkdoyZRDkuptY6u@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id CAA15796; Tue, 18 May 1999 02:10:11 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id CAA02217; Tue, 18 May 1999 02:13:57 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199905171713.CAA02217@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Smith , Juriy Goloveshkin , yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: keyboard problem in STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 12:12:08 MST." <199905141912.MAA01428@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199905141912.MAA01428@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 02:13:57 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I have 3.2-BETA. >> If I press keys while system is loading(before prompt occurrence) I >> get broken keyboard. Any keys and their combinations don`t work >> include Ctrl-Alt-Del. Only "reset" does. :( > >I've seen this if you hit a key at just the "wrong" moment. I haven't >been able to establish exactly which is the "wrong" moment though. > >It looks like the keyboard controller becomes confused or otherwise >unhappy; I've no idea why. You should talk to Kazu >(yokota@freebsd.org) if you want to help debugging this. Yes, the keyboard and the keyboard controller and their drivers may be confused if a key data is stuck in the buffer at certain moment. The keyboard driver tries to flush data queue before initialized the keyboard in order to avoid this. But, apparently it is failing to do so for you. If this happens now, it must have happned before as well... I will see how we can catch and fix this. In the meantime, please do not hold down a key for too long while the system is starting up :-) Kazu PS: it this machine, by any chance, based on MediaGX CPU? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message