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From: ivt@gamma.ru (Igor Timkin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Keyboard lockups
Date: 3 Mar 1997 05:32:15 +0300
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Thomas Gunnar Sparks (tgs@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: Font (font@MCS.COM) wrote:
: : Every so often, under FreeBSD 2.1.6.1, the keyboard locks up for no
: : apparent reason.  No key elicits a response, and if a screensaver is
: : activate, it will run after the specified time period as if no
: : keyboard input had been received.  Logins across the network are
: : unaffected, and I can remotely login and shut down the computer.

: This has happened to me a couple times... I thought for a while it was my 
: cheap keyboard, but I'm not sure.. I'm going to put my other keyboard on 
: and see if it happens again? I think this problem has manifested itself 
: to me 3-4 times on my system.. I usually login remotely and reboot once I 
: get the problem...
:  
: : My configuration is: Dell Dimension P75t, 16M RAM, AHA2940AU.  The
: : keyboard is a PS/2 style.  The mouse is a PS/2 style (activated in
: : GENERIC kernel, but unused as yet since I haven't installed X).
: : Network is 3C595.  No errors noted on startup.

: My config is : Intel Endeavor MB, P166, 48MB of ram,  Cheapo Win95 
: Mitsumi Keyboard, IDE Disks, Advansys PCI SCSI Card (pleading for drivers)
: I would usually notice this problem when using the CTRL-ALT-F? vtty 
: switching... So far it has only happened to me in X...

: : I checked in Deja News and noted that a few other people had related
: : problems, but that no responses to their queries was evident.

: I posted about this myself, but I didn't get any response either.. I'm 
: going to look through the mailing list archives again just to make sure 
: there are no answers about this...

Look the FAQ:

|6.8. My keyboard locks up after switching between vtys.
|
|Try adding the following option in your kernel configuration file and recompile it. 
|
|            options ASYNCH