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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
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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

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