Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 1995 04:38:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins)
To:        jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard locking up
Message-ID:  <199510040838.EAA09332@acmex.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951003004024.227B-100000@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> from "Basket Case" at Oct 3, 95 00:42:22 am

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> 
> 
> I have noticed a problem with 2.1.0-950928 freebsd snap locking up and 
> someone told  me that this was reported a few times.  After investigating
> this I have noticed that this seems to occur when the green screen saver
> comes online, and when I disable it (by pressing a key) and switching
> consoles -- poof, the keyboard locks up.  But the computer continues
> to work fine without any problems...
> 
> My solution was to disable the green screen saver...  am wondering if
> there are any revelancy between the two?
> 

we just had this problem on my friend's machine, which we just
installed 2.1.0-950928 on today. But he was typing at the time so
there's no way the screen saver was coming on, and he is using
snake instead of green. At the time it locked, he had just
changed vttys(he had 7 going at the time).



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199510040838.EAA09332>