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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:45 -0500
From:      "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spontaneous failure to deliver keystrokes
Message-ID:  <47d0403c0711272113u769d682boff78054b8b57d233@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0711270919q43bccf86ob409bca5cc99fd40@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <47d0403c0711270919q43bccf86ob409bca5cc99fd40@mail.gmail.com>

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On 11/27/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently put down a fresh install of 7.0-beta2 on my machine that was once
> tracking HEAD, and just now I was typing into an xterm and all my
> keystrokes were lost.  In fact, the machine (laptop) does not respond
> to any keyboard input at the moment, though the mouse works
> fine and I can ssh in.
>
> I'm going to leave the machine in this state for a while, in case there's
> a way to frob at kbdmux that I don't know about (yet).
>
> I am inclined to suspect the hardware on this machine, since it's
> already four years old and showing signs of age/wear, but I'll
> throw this out there in case someone else is also seeing
> weirdness (and who knows, maybe there is a way to
> remotely frob kbdmux and I'll find out).
>

For the archives: a reboot seems to have refreshed things,
though my half-baked fiddlings with kbdcontrol had
no effect.

This is a Dell Inspiron 8500 with an i8042 keyboard controller.

-Ben Kaduk



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