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Date:      Wed, 7 May 1997 07:36:10 -0500
From:      keyser@clio.rice.edu (Kevin Keyser)
To:        tsprad@mail.metronet.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: frozen virtual terminals on Dell system
Message-ID:  <9705071236.AA13097@clio.rice.edu>

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> > (not coincident with any other event I can think of) the system stops
> > responding to all keyboard input, just as if the keyboard had been
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > unplugged. 
>   ^^^^^^^^^
> Have you eliminated exactly that?  I have a wonderful little IBM keyboard that 
> I was using with a mini-DIN to normal-DIN adapter plus an extension cable, and 
> I got the same symptoms quite often.  The connections all seemed fine when I 
> checked them, but if I disconnected and reconnected it, it would immediately 
> start working fine again.  Just a flakey connector, I guess.
> 
> Doesn't hurt to check the really stupid stuff.
> 
> Ted Spradley <A HREF="mailto:tsprad@metronet.com">tsprad@metronet.com </A> +1-972-484-5356
> Brisco: "...the more I learn the less I know."
> Bowler: "At the rate we're learning things we won't know nothing in no time."

In fact I did check this and it was not the problem.  Even tried a
different keyboard.  Also, things work fine (relatively speaking) when
booted into Win95.  This makes me think the hardware is OK and I must
have some config problem, IRQ conflict (though I don't see one), etc.

Kevin Keyser
keyser@clio.rice.edu



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