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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:36:40 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        atrens@nortel.ca (Andrew Atrens)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! keyboard lockups - could be kernel bug ?
Message-ID:  <199709090836.BAA26781@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709090549.WAA05083@hub.freebsd.org> from "Andrew Atrens" at Sep 9, 97 01:47:00 am

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> Last week I wrote about bizarre problem I was experiencing with keyboard
> lockups under X. Well a week has passed and the situation has not improved
> despite my best efforts. Actually to be honest I'm not sure what to try
> next. Any pointers would be appreciated...
> 
> Actually, one further clue: if I'm pounding my IDE disk ( while running xdm
> of course ) the keyboard will also occasionally lock up. The lock up is 
> fairly gradual, usually starts with a single key press being missed, then
> a few, and then eventually ( after, say 30 seconds ) I can play `chopsticks'
> without effect ;) . Its almost as though the activity on the PCI bus is 
> somehow gating the keyboard i/o... unfortunately for the keyboard its a
> one way trip - once its locked up its dead.

Somone else was reporting serial port lockups when they were hitting
their IDE drive hard.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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