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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD doesn't recognize keyboard - sometimes :-( Date: 4 Feb 1994 01:06:11 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2is723$q4b@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2ip043$6a3@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2ip043$6a3@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.sub.org>, Patrick M.Hausen <pmh@pilhuhn.sub.org> wrote: >Hello altogether! > >I have a little problem with FreeBSD at startup. Sometimes the keyboard >just does not work. The system's up and fine, though. .. >Bouncing some "innocent" key like "shift" or "numlock" during boot >makes it work all the time. Generally this goes away when the keyboard is installed on the harddrive, but in your case it apparently didn't. If you can recompile yourself a kernel (get the kernel sources) that has your local configuration in it the problem should go away. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.