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From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9: keyboard hangs under heavy system load
Date: 07 Sep 1993 02:58:24 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au's message of 6 Sep 93 23:45:00 GMT


Once again, to fix the `hanging keyboard' problem, at least
temporarily:

   Make /dev/console be a symlink to /dev/vga.

This problem manifests itself slightly differently under 386BSD and
FreeBSD, but is definitely there.