From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 5 15:20:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA13951 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 15:20:09 -0800 Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA13892 ; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 15:20:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 15:20:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199512052320.PAA13892@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: kern/866: pcvt causes console lockups Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/866; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: scrappy@hub.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/866: pcvt causes console lockups Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 23:48:19 +0100 (MET) As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >How-To-Repeat: > > enable -t 300 for the screen saver I'm always using pcvt with the screen saver. So this ``How-To-Repeat'' doesn't help... Can you determine what exactly is locking? (E.g. by loggin in via network or an async terminal.) Most likely, it's the well-known ``keyboard LEDs update'' problem that seems to happen on few keyboards. Can you trigger the problem by rapidly switching vty's? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)