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Date:      Thu, 9 Jul 1998 02:57:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      sos@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        walton@nordicdms.com
Cc:        chris@bb.cc.wa.us, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: console Freezes.
Message-ID:  <199807090957.CAA23122@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980709072749.15601.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> from Dave Walton at "Jul 9, 98 00:27:49 am"

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In reply to Dave Walton who wrote:
> On  8 Jul 98 at 14:49, Chris Coleman wrote:
> 
> > I am having a problem with my console freezing.  The vtys just stop
> > responding. i am running a 2.2.6-Stablish version on a Pentium 100.  X
> > still works if I run kdm.  I can login remotely.  dialup to the server
> > still works,  Just the terminals freeze.  I can't switch virtual
> > terminals.  I must be something with the console driver.  Where do I start
> > looking.  I have tried rebooting and it freezes up after a while.
> 
> Would you happen to recall why you removed ASYNCH?  Is there some 
> other option that might cure this problem?

It was removed because it was stale code that didn't work, it just put
in someloooong delays and therefor masked the problem. The hanging
console problem was solved later in 1.183 IIRC.
Have you tried another keyboard ??

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.

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