Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 08:33:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: Udo Wolter <uwp@ukrv.de> To: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Cc: uwp@ukrv.de, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: PS/2 and Keycode bug Message-ID: <9707100633.AA07266@merlin.ukrv.de> In-Reply-To: <199707081711.CAA13841@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> from Kazutaka YOKOTA at "Jul 9, 97 02:11:06 am"
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> The PS/2 mouse and the serial mouse are completely different and > are handled in different ways under FreeBSD. Therefore, if the keyboard > lockup you are describing happens in both systems in the same way, > then I think it is unlikely that the cause of the lockup is with the mice. That's what I wanted to say. :-) > You appear to be experiencing the lockup under X. If you move the Yes, only under X at this time. > mouse, does the mouse pointer move accordingly? If so, the mouse and No, mouse AND keyboard are dead. > the X server are all right (you may not be able to display menu or > move windows, but that's not the mouse driver's fault). I don't know. Because I can't move anything I don't know what's happening. > What happens if you hit Num-Lock, Caps-Lock or Scroll-Lock? If Never tried. > hitting these keys changes the keyboard LEDs, the keyboard driver is > working. Another way to test the keyboard driver is to login to the > system via telnet or rlogin from another host, become root, and issue > `kbdcontrol -r fast < /dev/ttyv0'. If the keyboard driver is dead, the > command will fail. This sounds good. I'll test it the next time I have a lockup. > You see, there always is a possibility that it is either the window > manager or a client program that is not responding to mouse or > keyboard input, and the keyboard and mouse drivers are sending correct > data to the X server. Maybe. I'll test it the next time and will tell you. > >doin' nothin'. It only hung up when I really kick the machine to boost > >every bit out of it. > > Like doing what? renice some processes to -20 (e.g. a musicin process -> MPEG-Audio-Encoding) or starting 2 X-servers at once. This worked fantastic in 2.1.7 so it should be ok. Bye, Udo -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://low-tech.home.ml.org !!!
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