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From: jkh@smspde.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Keyboard lockup problem under FreeBSD
Date: 25 Apr 1994 12:28:19 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr25122819@smspde.ilo.dec.com>
References: <1994Apr21.135939.368@ic.simbirsk.su>
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In-reply-to: sm@ic.simbirsk.su's message of Thu, 21 Apr 1994 13:59:39 GMT

In article <1994Apr21.135939.368@ic.simbirsk.su> sm@ic.simbirsk.su (Serge Mikhailov) writes:
   When it running on "standard" ISA 486DS'es - thats all ok, but I have tried
   to install it on the AST Premmia SE computer (EISA, 16Mb RAM, 256K Cache, 
   Integrated IDE and VGA controllers (both are used), SCSI HBA Adaptec-1542CF).

Do you have anything running under cron?  There is a problem where syslogd
will steal away your keyboard if you're not running the X server on a
virtual tty.  Try removing any gettys from /dev/console or /dev/vga (in
fact you can just remove /dev/vga) and make sure that all your consoles
are running on `vtys'.

E.g. your /etc/ttys file should look something like this:

#
#	@(#)ttys	5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
#
# name	getty				type	status		comments
#
ttyv0	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"		pc3	on  secure
ttyv1	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"		cons25	on secure
ttyv2	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"		cons25	on secure
ttyv3	"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"		cons25	off secure
^^^ just leave that one for X.

# Hardwired terminals
tty00	"/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"	unknown	off secure
tty01	"/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"	unknown	off secure

# Dialin terminals
ttyd2   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure
ttyd3   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure

# Pseudo terminals
ttyp0	none			network
ttyp1	none			network
ttyp2	none			network
ttyp3	none			network
ttyp4	none			network
ttyp5	none			network
ttyp6	none			network
ttyp7	none			network
ttyp8	none			network
ttyp9	none			network
ttypa	none			network
ttypb	none			network
ttypc	none			network
ttypd	none			network
ttype	none			network
ttypf	none			network
ttyq0	none			network
ttyq1	none			network
ttyq2	none			network
ttyq3	none			network
ttyq4	none			network
ttyq5	none			network
ttyq6	none			network
ttyq7	none			network
ttyq8	none			network
ttyq9	none			network
ttyqa	none			network
ttyqb	none			network
ttyqc	none			network
ttyqd	none			network
ttyqe	none			network
ttyqf	none			network