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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.unomaha.edu!cwis!ekennedy From: ekennedy@cwis.unomaha.edu (Eric Kennedy) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Console keyboard hung after booting Message-ID: <ekennedy.755992243@cwis> Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server) Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha References: <CI28I8.16p@jadpc.cts.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 21:50:43 GMT Lines: 28 jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch) writes: >I have an NCR 3333 486/33 I just laid FreeBSD 1.0e on. The system has >8 meg ram, adaptec 1540 scsi, wd8003e ethernet. After I boot the >system the console keyboard doesn't respond. This happened while >installing the system and I found I could get the system to act >correctly by hitting the spacebar (or any other key) while the system >was probing the scsi bus. Has anyone else seen this problem, and if >so have a fix? >Thanks, >Jim >-- >INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com >UUCP: nosc!jadpc!jdeitch >FIDONET: Jim_Deitch@f723.n202.z1.fidonet.org (1:202/723) I have had the same thing occur on a Gateway 486/66 machine. I have found that if I turn off the "turbo" button during the boot sequence the keyboard does not usually get hung up. If I leave the "turbo" button on the keyboard is always hung on the console. Incidently, I have found that if I log into the machine from another workstation and echo something to the console screen (i.e., echo hello > /dev/console) that the keyboard then wakes up. Does anyone know the cause of this problem? Eric Kennedy (ekennedy@cwis.unomaha.edu)