Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:20:19 +0000 From: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> 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: <3890D2B3.632DBE96@freenet.co.uk> References: <200001271856.KAA09456@windsor.research.att.com> <45272.949008490@zippy.cdrom.com> <200001272143.QAA20638@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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 Yeah, happens here too, every now and again. I boot straight into xdm, so it might have something to do with X, but any attempts to type in the username generate garbage. I can't switch to a text console, because Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys don't work either - all I can do is push the Big Red Button. The graphics card in my laptop is Chips & Technology 65555. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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