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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!utciva.civ.utwente.nl!infnews.cs.utwente.nl!olah From: olah@cs.utwente.nl (Andras Olah) Subject: Re: Keyboard lockup problem under FreeBSD Message-ID: <1994Apr22.125900@cs.utwente.nl> Keywords: FreeBSD 1.1BETA, keyboard, lockup Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl Nntp-Posting-Host: utis156.cs.utwente.nl Organization: Univ. of Twente, Dept. of Comp. Sci. References: <1994Apr21.135939.368@ic.simbirsk.su> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 10:59:00 GMT Lines: 25 In article <1994Apr21.135939.368@ic.simbirsk.su>, sm@ic.simbirsk.su (Serge Mikhailov) writes: [ ... ] |> After each ~5 minutes the keyboard (its controller, I mean) lockups. |> Plugging/unplugging is helpless, but it can be reseted by SYSCONS. (For |> example: syscons -r fast </dev/vga). It can be done by "cron" or "rsh" from |> remote computer. I've experienced the same problem under 1.1BETA. It usually happens to me if I'm using vi in an xterm while cron starts a job. Using a wm menu to switch to another VT solves the problem. |> Does someone encountered something likes that? May be it can be fixed |> by hacking the syscons driver? |> |> |> Thanks in advance, SM. |> |> -- |> ************************************************************** |> * Serge N. Mikhailov, INFOCOM Center ltd, Simbirsk, Russia * |> * E-mail: sm@ic.simbirsk.su Phone: +7(8422)-32-72-71 * |> ************************************************************** -- Andras Olah