*BSD News Article 6807


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Micronics 486VL 386BSD 0.1 keyboard input
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1992 20:00:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Oct20.200012.14095@kithrup.COM>
References: <1992Oct12.061945.530@kithrup.COM> <1992Oct19.183325.6828@kithrup.COM> <1992Oct20.151516.16454@alliant.com>
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In article <1992Oct20.151516.16454@alliant.com> dufault@alliant.com (Peter Dufault) writes:
>I have found that it invariably boots up OK if you hit the carriage
>return when the boot up messages start to show up on the screen,
>and watch for them to start to echo.  Once you see a single echo
>you're home free.

We've also been able to get the keyboard to come back to life by logging in
over the network and causing a message to be sent to the console (by, for
example, su'ing).

Strange but true.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
sef@kithrup.COM  |  little effort you make to learn your way around."
-----------------+    -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.