From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 15 00:24:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:24:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10079; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 1014Wt-0007jz-00; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:22:56 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id IAA01980; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:22:24 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02071; Fri, 15 Jan 99 08:22:21 GMT Message-Id: <369EFAAC.53F60BE@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:22:04 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: walton@nordicdms.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keyboard freeze References: <19990115075522.6329.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Walton wrote: > > I just installed 3.0-RELEASE on an old 486 (with Cyrix 5x86 chip). > For no apparent reason, the keyboard keeps freezing up. The only > way I've been able to get it back is by logging in remotely and > rebooting. The system has only been up less than 24 hours and > I've already had to reboot at least half a dozen times. > > Most of the time, it's been happening in X, but that's probably > because that's where I've been using the system the most. It also > froze up once before I even had X up and running, while I was just > using the vtys. I've tried swapping keyboards, but with no > improvement. > > Any suggestions? > This is merely a suggestion, I don't know for sure, but look in the LINT kernel config file, there's a whole stack of options for Cyrix chips. Maybe one of these needs setting and a new kernel making. > Thanks, > Dave > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dave Walton > Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide > walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message