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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 1998 02:06:47 -0600 (CST)
From:      Pilo Phlat <dono@async.org>
To:        questions@feebsd.org, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Keyboard (PS/2?) problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812240155370.451-100000@toad.async.org>

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Hello,

I have a PS/2 keyboard here, from "PC Concepts". It is the split-key
(ergonomic), 107-key version (not the 109-key w/ touchpad). The keyboard
is connected to a FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE machine, with syscons driver, psm
driver for the PS/2 mouse, and so on (mail me if you need to see the
entire kernel config).

The problem is that somewhat randomly (I cannot repeat this on-demand),
about every 2-3 days (sometimes not even 1 day, sometimes 4-5 days) of
being up, the keyboard freezes. It is usually after switching virtual
consoles (with alt+Fkey). I could not find a way to reset the keyboard
after it froze, and had to reboot the machine remotely. When I un-plug the
keyboard and plug it back in, the Num/Caps/Scroll lock LEDs flash, but the
keyboard is still frozen. Only way I could get it back to work is by
rebooting the machine.

It seems, though, that this is a problem with the keyboard itself, not
FreeBSD (I haven't verified this). I've had this problem with Linux and
Windows 98 as well, but in those cases, simply un-plugging and plugging
the keyboard back in fixes the problem. Assuming that this is a problem
with the keyboard, is there way to prevent this somehow (I doubt it, but
...)? If not, is there any way to reset it, so that I could use the
keyboard again without rebooting (something like /usr/sbin/kcon -R won't
help, since I'm using the syscons driver, not pcvt)?

If any of you readers have experienced a similar problem with the same
kind of keyboard, or a different kind, I'd like to know. Thanks for your
time.

-d.


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