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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9: keyboard hangs under heavy system load
Date: 7 Sep 1993 03:39:05 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Message-ID: <26gvopINNjnu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <cproto.747289640@marsh> <cproto.747359100@marsh> <MYCROFT.93Sep6225824@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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I wonder if you might be having a problem that was reported in comp.os.linux
a while back.
>From: reedr@newt.ee.byu.edu (Ryan Reed)
>culprit is the keyboard controller. The offender in the two cases I know of was
>a Cirrus logic ACTKEY keyboard controller. When this was replaced with
>Megatrends version f 8042 chip, the problem magically dissapeared.
I can post the whole article if that will help.
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