Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:29:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: locking up Message-ID: <199608071729.MAA00250@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199608061721.MAA23320@miller.cs.uwm.edu> from "Jim Lowe" at Aug 6, 96 12:21:12 pm
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> > Sometimes, at no predetermined time, without warning, when switching VC's, > > I'll lock up. FreeBSD doesn't lockup just the keyboard, and I can only fix > > it by rebooting. > > A while ago Bruce Evans had posted this, if you run it, it > unlocks the keyboard. I don't know why this happens or why > it hasn't been fixed. The way I run it is to remote login > from some other machine. > > echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem I have the same problem - I'm running 2.1.0R CD distribution, and at random times during an X session, the keyboard just freezes up. Executing 'kbd_mode' doesn't fix the problem either. Logging in remotely and killing the X server clears up the difficulty though, or executing the above commandline. -- Jonathan
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