Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:22:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001271417360.10160-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200001272143.QAA20638@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:28:10 -0800, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> said: > > >> 3. On the first reboot after installing, the keyboard was in a funny > >> state. > > > Urk, can't reproduce it. I need a reproducible sequence of operations > > before we'll have any hope of tackling this one. > > >> Control-alt-del definitely didn't work, so I had to power off and > >> reboot. This hasn't repeated itself. > > > Same here. > > 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 As another sort of me-to, I use a non-standard key board from an ols lunch-box portable. It seems to have stopped working correctly in the boot-loader/visual config, although it still works fine in single-user and above. I mention this only in that it might be a useful data point, it has never been enough of a hassle for me to try to understand exactally what is going on, I just hook up a spare 101-key keyboard. Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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