Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 06:43:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Weird syscons keyboard behaviour Message-ID: <199909171143.GAA00356@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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I've noticed some odd syscons keyboard behaviour over the past month or so. Sometimes I get a vty that outputs PC graphics characters for all of my input. This is always at a "login:" prompt. I think I can duplicate this by typing a bunch of garbage at a login prompt, but I don't feel like trying to test it right now and have to reboot my main machine. I just saw this again after a clean boot with a 24 hour old kernel. (built 07:00 a.m. 9/16/99 CST from a few hour old CVSup). The boot went fine, but when I started typing at the login prompt, all I got was garbage. I couldn't switch vty's or anything. I just gave up and hit the big red button. After the reboot, everything was fine. I think this might be some kind of timing problem. I was starting to type in my username right away when I saw the boot was finishing, and if I recall the past incidents correctly, I may have been doing the same thing. I've seen this probably 4 or 5 times in the past month, maybe 6 weeks. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? This is a Compaq AMD K6-2/400 machine. PS/2 style keyboard input to the motherboard. I'll be glad to supply any further details. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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