From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 00:53:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA19408 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:53:55 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA19403 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 00:53:51 -0700 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA00324; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 08:51:17 +0100 Message-Id: <199510130751.IAA00324@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Keyboard locks at login prompt To: jamesmw@eskimo.com (James Wraalstad) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 08:51:17 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "James Wraalstad" at Oct 12, 95 10:32:48 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 867 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Greetings, > > I have installed the October snapshot of Freebsd via a dos partition > which went very smoothly with the binaries using the defaults > in the installation menus. > When I reboot the machine, it boots up to the login prompt and then the > keyboard freezes. Up to this point the keyboard is responsive. The > screen saver works very nicely, so I assume that the OS is running. Did you test it without the screensaver enabled? Can you ALT-F2 switch to the second (e.g.) console? I've seen the keyboard freezing one time with a 2.x kernel on my ASUS SP3G board. But it didn't happen again yet. At that time I had vidcontrol yellow blue in my /etc/rc.local Don't know if its important though. > > Thank you for your attention, > > James Wraalstad > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de