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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!<UNAUTHENTICATED>+ Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Message-ID: <Ife0_gP0Bwx2B34kFt@transarc.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 00:03:40 -0500 From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com Subject: [386bsd] Dell keyboard problem Lines: 17 I have 386bsd 0.1 running on a Dell 486D/33. It seems that the 386bsd keyboard handler leaves the keyboard controller in a funny state, since when I reboot with "shutdown -r", the BIOS reports a keyboard error on the way back up, and when the system is running again, the keyboard doesn't work anymore. - I have to power-cycle to get it back. My guess is that 386bsd puts the keyboard into an unusual state for its own purposes, and rebooting from software doesn't do a complete reset of the whole system. Anyone seen this before? Anyone have a patch? While I'm here, isn't there a better way of rebooting the system than zorching the page tables? I know that this causes a triple fault, which makes the CPU shut down (which causes a reboot on an ISA bus machine), but it seems to me to be a rather barbaric way of doing it.... --Pat.