From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 14: 5:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A579157B5 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:05:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id RAA45404; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:04:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:04:55 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Bill Fenner , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT In-Reply-To: <200001272143.QAA20638@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > I have on a number of occasions had my laptop boot with a > non-functional keyboard. Sometimes the keyboard is just locked; other > times it generates garbage. Never managed to isolate the > circumstances in which this happened (but it didn't happen with a > kernel from last September or there-abouts). Haven't had it happen on > a desktop or server yet. > > -GAWollman I've seen this on a Compaq Armada laptop recently (-current from about 1/10/2000). It only happens when I interrupt the boot process with a key press (I cannot recall whether it was in /boot/loader or in boot2). I suspect the latter, but have not yet tracked the problem down. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message