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Date:      Sun, 4 Jun 2000 11:15:30 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        wc.bulte@chello.nl, FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Miata console after 'halt'
Message-ID:  <20000604111530.A78087@freebie.wbnet>
In-Reply-To: <14649.26030.594976.699497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 04:11:54PM -0400
References:  <20000603130518.A73911@freebie.wbnet> <14649.26030.594976.699497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 04:11:54PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > I wonder if anybody has ever seen the following:
>  > 
>  > Miata MX5 or Miata GL. Both run -current without any problems. Shutdown
>  > FreeBSD.
>  > 
>  > Now the SRM console yells for every keystroke: "scancode foo not supported"
>  > or something close to that. Needless to say the (DEC) keyboard works just
>  > fine when FreeBSD is running. A reset is needed to get the SRM to work with
>  > the keyboard again.
>  > 
>  > Not critical, but annoying.
> 
> Yes, I see this.  It hasn't been very high in my priority list.  FWIW, 
> I don't think it happens with an AS200 or an AS600...
> 
> Have you seen any keyboard related oddities when running X?  A while

Well, I almost never run X on my Alphas. My 21" tube is hooked up to a
PeeCee ;-)

> ago I noticed that if I had Xkbd enabled on my Miata GL at home, I'd
> get a random ` (back-quote) characters appearing about every 500th
> keypress.  Turning putting XkbDisable in my /etc/XF86Config made the
> problem go away -- I assumed it was just a bad keyboard.  (BTW,
> XkbDisable doesn't help the console problem you mention)

I can try to see what happens using X.

> Yesterday I fired up X (an old build of 3.3.4) on the UP1000 I'm

UP1000 is a nice machine.. Hm. Means I really should get started getting
Rawhide, Sable/DemiSable/Lynx in HARDWARE.TXT. UP1000 to follow asap after
that.

> working on (FreeBSD mostly works, BTW) and noticed that the keyboard
> didn't work at all.  In fact, I had to reboot the machine after
> starting X in order to get the keyboard back.  XkbDisable cures this
> problem too..

Hmm. Sounds there is something quite wrong in the keyboard/console driver as
far as some Alphas is concerned (?).

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	FreeBSD, the power to serve  	http://www.freebsd.org
						http://www.nlfug.nl


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