From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 22 14:50:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA17791 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:50:08 -0800 Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA17757 ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:50:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:50:04 -0800 Message-Id: <199511222250.OAA17757@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: kern/834: the console keyboard locks up randonly under pcvt Reply-To: "Marc G. Fournier" Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/834; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/834: the console keyboard locks up randonly under pcvt Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:41:20 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > > > Sometime early Wednesday morning (problem was noticed at 5:44am), the > > console on my machine locked up. When turning the screen on, the clock > > that was present on my console was still ticking away, and was showing > > 5:44, indicating that the problem was completely within the keyboard > > (nothing typed showed up on the screen) > > The only known keyboard locking problem with pcvt was related to the > "set LEDs" command. Your problem seems to be something else. > > Do the keyboard LEDs still work (press caps or num lock)? > > Do you have the chance to swap hardware? > > It's hardly believable that the driver would lock up, since apparently > nothing has been done with the keyboard. I'm close to blame the > hardware first in this case... > I'm beginning to suspect hardware too...my new keyboard in particular. I've just plugged in an older (and less pleasurable to use) keyboard, and will see how it works... The last failure seems to be a little too suspicious, considering that the monitor itself was still working Marc G. Fournier | Knowledge, Information and Communications, Inc (ki.net) scrappy@hub.org | soon to be: | scrappy@ki.net | For more information, send me email.