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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:52:48 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        KentH@HNS.St-Louis.Mo.US
Subject:   Re: Keyboard lockout on 2.x.x
Message-ID:  <199602201252.XAA23329@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>It doesn't matter whether LEDs would really be toggled.  The command
>is always sent to the keyboard on a VT switch, even if the update will
>yield the same LED state as previously.  Hence the line conflict will
>always happen.

To fix it if you can log in as root from another host, try

	echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem

This fakes a keyboard interrupt.

Bruce



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