Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 03:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com> To: "P. van Leeuwen" <pvl@nanoteq.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Keyboard dies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970619032741.1867B-100000@www2.shoppersnet.com> In-Reply-To: <01BC7C96.E93BCBC0@pc-pvl.nanoteq.co.za>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, P. van Leeuwen wrote: > Hi > > I have this old 486-dx2 66Mhz PC at home and it is running 2.2.1-Release. My problem is > that the keyboard just dies at random times. Sometimes it happens after bootup at the xdm prompt > and other times it would happen in X or even in a vc. It would mostly happen when I switch between > vc's. I can always telnet into the machine, and the mouse keeps on working, but the keyboard is > just dead. Last night it got even worse -- I can type in stuff at the boot prompt, but that's the last > time the keyboard works. > > Any ideas? It is not nice having to reset the PC everytime as it is standalone at the moment. > I wanted to try the pcvt driver, but now I can't get into the machine :( > > thanks > pierre If the keyboard/keyboard cable/keyboard connector isn't broken it most likely is a conflict with another card in your system. For example, the scsi controller that comes with the Zip drive uses a default i/o address that causes some motherboards to lockup their keyboards. Solution is to jumper to an alternative address. > > P. van Leeuwen > Electronic Engineer > pvl@nanoteq.com > http://www.nanoteq.co.za > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoppers Network (Support) AMD K5/K6s, Cyrix 6x86, Intel Pentiums/Pro Phone: (415) 759-8584 Email: howard@shoppersnet.com ==============================> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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