Re: Keyboard freezes afterboot
From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 10/19/03
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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:05:15 +0000 (UTC)
In article <pan.2003.10.19.14.55.23.462938@despammed.com>, active wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:44:01 -0400, Brian A. Sekcli wrote:
>> Hmmm that's interesting. *I've* never heard of problems with AT or PS/2
>> keyboards like that. You can maybe try till'ing the port-i386@ archives
>> but that seems like overkill. Really, to debug this, we'd need to see the
>> dmesg/kernel output regarding wscons and wskeyboard.
> It's the first time I see a problem like this, too.
> Anyway, I see that there's no errors in dmsg, just a kbd freeze immediatly
> after the first line of the booting process. In the rest of the boot, as I
> said, I don't see any timeout, conflict or strange error.
> !The more absurd thing is that some times ago that machine had run openbsd
> without any sort of problem.!
I've had this happen on a brand box running linux[0], where a later FreeBSD
install didn't have a problem _at all_ with the keyboard. The second cpu
however...[1]
Some machines need a kick in the kbd controller halfway the boot to keep
it working. Might want to check the bootflags to see if there's an
explicit reset-the-keyboard one.
[0] 2.2.something kernel.
[1] I did solve that one, altough I don't remember how. This was a weird
and wacky ``big brand'' box so such things are to be expected.
-- j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
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