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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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