Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 12:35:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan Isley <jan@bagend.atl.ga.us> To: ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random keyboard hangs w/ 2.0.5 on PC-Express 486's Message-ID: <199507241635.MAA04045@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.950722214144.9979C-100000@alpha.dsu.edu> from "Guy Helmer" at Jul 22, 95 09:46:31 pm
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Let me guess, you are using syscons and not pcvt? I had the same problem. Several people suggested trying a pcvt enabled kernel. I did and no more keyboard lockup... and I am starting to like pcvt. :) Guy Helmer wrote: > I've installed 2.0.5-ALPHA on on PC-Express 486DX/33 and 2.0.5-RELEASE on > two PC-Express 486DX/33's, and each of the PCs will randomly lock the > keyboard. I've found that telneting in and issuing a "kbdcontrol -r > normal < /dev/ttyv0" will free the keyboard, so maybe I'll just add that > command to root's crontab :-) It even happens when running X. The > systems have different models of keyboards. 1.1.5.1 used to work fine on > these systems. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance! I am guessing it is a problem with the syscons driver and some flavors of keyboard bios. This motherboard is an ASUS PVI-486AP4 but I have not taken the cover off to check which keyboard bios it uses yet.
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