Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:26:12 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Console switching woes remain Message-ID: <9c983121ea800eab2aa666dfad50cd16@cequrux.com>
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Hiya all Well, despite managing to get rid of XFree86-4.0 and getting XFree86-3.3.6 to work, my woes remain. Things aren't quite so bad bad; at least the machine doesn't freeze up. But they're bad enough to render it useless anyway. I would suspect a hardware fault except that none of this behaviour has manifested itself when running MS-Windoze. Maybe I've just been lucky, but that seems a bit too much like a coincidence, especially as this trouble happens regularly (almost reliably replicable). Here's what happens: * I start X * I use X for a bit. Within a short time, the psm driver loses sync, and never regains it. This manifests as a drunken mouse with seemingly random button presses (or, with the test patches that were recently posted installed, as the mouse cursor freezing up, which is a slightly better behaviour). * X is pretty much unusable after that (at least to me, who doesn't know all the keystroke shortcuts to drive it without a mouse). * I kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (but I'm pretty sure the behaviour I'm about to describe has happened when I've switched out with Ctrl-Alt-Fn as well). * if I'm lucky nothing has gone wrong, and I can repeat this whole process. But about half the time, the keyboard controller also seems to be zonked. Usually the Enter key has been arbitrarily reassigned (sometimes to ScrlLock, sometimes to something else). Occasionally other keys get affected too. * Rebooting does NOT solve the problem - I have to power-cycle the machine before the keyboard works properly again. This does make me wonder whether the mouse problems are not so much in the psm driver as they are in the underlying kbd driver. Hardware: Compaq Presario 1600 laptop, Trident Cyberblade/i1 VGA, 64Mb RAM, 18Gb IBM HDD Software: FreeBSD-4.0S, last cvsupped about two weeks back. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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