Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 15:55:05 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update on keyboard lockup with SNAP Message-ID: <m0sR3CT-0004ojC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <199506270516.HAA26662@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 27, 95 07:16:42 am
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J Wunsch wrote: > As Jan Isley wrote: > > I built a new kernel with pcvt instead of sc0, installed it, read > > the man pages, etc... do you *really* have to type scon -cN to > > change screens with pcvt? ALT-FN did *other* things. :) By The I noticed "Bad bad sector table" being printed as the first line of the boot up sequence and I do not recall seeing that before, and Rod asked me to reseat things. So I took boards out, put them back in, did a low level format, reinstalled a 250 MB DOS partition and then installed SNAP on the 750+ MB left. The message is still there. ? dmesg does not print it after the system is running. Time for another doc hunting trip. :) I built a new kernel using sc0 and sure enough the keyboard will freeze, not even a ctl-ald-del or num-lock/caps-lock light toggle if you change screens one to many times. Is no one else seeing this? I will try banging on a pcvt kernel tonight. > Err, Ctrl-Alt-F<n>, consistently with XFree86. (There's also F9 > through F12 for the first four screens, and Alt-F12 for cycling > through the screens.) > > Hmm, i should have pointed you to the documentation in > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc. My fault. Ah, well getting anything requires going through several systems and slow modems just to get here, so I had only been getting the ssys.src anyway. I am very new to BSD, but I thought that was what man pages and /usr/share was for. ;-) Oh well, I have been wrong 14 times already today, a few dozen more won't hurt me. :-) > > typing esc-k-return (with bash set -ao vi that is) switching between > > four screens until my fingers cramped... came back later and did it > > another thousand times... it did not lock up with pcvt. I will try > > again later. > > Well, you `vi' fans out there. Wouldn't have it been better to > temporarily ``set -o emacs'' and simly hit the up arrow key? :-} Sure, if I had thought of it. :-( I *prefer* vi editing modes because I learned vi first. At this point, I think it would take me a few decades to learn to like emacs. > Seems like a problem of the kbd driver in syscons... Sxren??? It seems that way to me. I have noticed other threads going here about systems hanging up... makes me wonder if they are not having the same problem and have not noticed that it is the same. -- Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Hobbes
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