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From: stesin@elvisti.ua (Andrey Stesin)
Subject: [?] Who knows about problems in 1.1-BETA keyboard support - help!
Reply-To: fbsd@elvisti.kiev.ua
Organization: Elektronni Visti
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 1994 17:14:19 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Apr06.171419.9559@elvisti.ua>
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Hello!

Sorry for being a dummy in this; but I have a problem with 1.1-BETA
and keyboard. The detail description follows; but the first question is:

	I vaguely remember that someone here in news (maybe during some
	flame battle? :)  told, that he'd found some "stupid bug" in 
	1.1-BETA, which caused the troubles with the keyboard.
	As far as I remember, the problem was solved quickly due to those
	brave man... Can anyone point me - who was those wizard and how
	can I contact him - I want to ask a question or two, nothing more :)

The problem. (Was posted to mailing list; no solution was proposed :(  )

	While working with 1.1-BETA (no X11, stock syscons/pccons)
	keyboard hangs... The system is still alive, I can telnet into it,
	but there's no reaction on any keys.

Hardware. The box is a European Intel, "S series", model S486DX334F,
	made in Ireland. It has: high integrated motherboard with all-on-it -
	VGA, com/lpt ports, IDE, FDC; CPU i486dx-33, RAM 8mb.
	Keyboard is marked:

	PRODUCT NO. ALPSCL188XX, made in Ireland, too.

	Why I think this may be important - some people with the same boxes
	have no problems... Maybe the keyboard fails? Some hardw tests for dos
	show nothing unusual...

	When I disabled the external 64kb cache, hangups dissapeared,
	but the box has become slo-o-o-w...

		Thanks in advance!	Andrew Stesin, Elvisti, Kiev.