From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 03:10:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0EA106566B for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:10:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) Received: from hercules.mthelicon.com (hercules.mthelicon.com [IPv6:2001:49f0:2023::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75A18FC18 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from feathers.peganest.com ([89.193.163.111]) (authenticated bits=0) by hercules.mthelicon.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7S3ALqw062435; Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:10:21 GMT (envelope-from ken@mthelicon.com) From: Pegasus Mc Cleaft Organization: Feathers To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:06:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-BETA1; KDE/4.6.4; amd64; ; ) References: <003d01cc638a$ef75c050$ce6140f0$@com> <201108271911.43395.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <201108271911.43395.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108280406.55976.ken@mthelicon.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=15.0 tests=BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hercules.mthelicon.com Cc: Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: Console problem with ALT-F# keys X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 03:10:25 -0000 On Saturday 27 August 2011 13:11:43 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 26 August 2011 07:56:04 Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > > I have recently installed this into a new machine and had chance to > > did you solve your problem? > > I have had a similar problem yesterday after upgrading my ports via > packages. I could not even switch to the consoles anymore. Hi Erich, No, I havent.. But I am leaning towards a hardware quirk at this point. Since the original post, I have done a bit more digging and had a chance to test against another machine and it does not have the same problem. I also found out that even though I had connected a PS2 keyboard to the motherboards PS2 ports, these are not conventional ports. They look like they are actually connected to a converter that sits on the motherboards USB controller. On the second test machine, I attached a PS2 keyboard to the PS2 Port and a USB keyboard (Sun type 6) to the USB ports. Neither of the keyboards have this problem.. With this in mind, I am fairly sure its not a BSD issue and suspect its whatever converter they put on this Intel motherboard. Weird... Peg