From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 27 14:20:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6724215077 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:20:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (IDENT:root@shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA02574; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:20:40 -0800 Received: from localhost by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id OAA18497; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:22:46 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:22:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie 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: > < 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