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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!master.cs.rose-hulman.edu!news From: sullivan@cs.rose-hulman.edu (Fred Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Keyboard not recognized and console hanging Date: 10 Nov 93 09:18:13 Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <SULLIVAN.93Nov10091813@lethbridge.cs.rose-hulman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lethbridge.cs.rose-hulman.edu I am trying to run NetBSD-0.9 on IBM Value Point PC's. When you boot, the console hangs. Dave Burgess suggested "tickling" the num-lock key as the machines boots. This works, and everything is ok for a while. However, on some (but seemingly not all of the 25 machines in my lab) the console will again hang after 10 minutes or so. This is a very serious problem, especially since I can't keep some of the machines up long enough to rdist new software. A while back, I saw the tail end of a discussion on the "hanging console bug". However, my news server has been very erratic lately and I missed almost all of the discussion. Is this my problem? If so, what causes the hanging console bug and can anything be done about it? I have been running NetBSD on two non-true-blue machines with not trouble at all since it was released, so obviously this is some sort of hardware-specific problem. Thanks, -- Fred Sullivan Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Wilkes University fsulliva@wilkes1.wilkes.edu Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 (717) 824-4651 Ext. 4846