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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!not-for-mail From: datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Datacraft Technology) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Major problems with FreeBSD-1.1 Date: 9 Jun 1994 22:09:47 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 54 Sender: datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <2t77rb$7cu$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> References: <2t37es$h6j$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> <Cr2w1z.Mw8@world.std.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: perth.dialix.oz.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 (NOV) In <Cr2w1z.Mw8@world.std.com> hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) writes: >In article <2t37es$h6j$1@perth.dialix.oz.au>, >Datacraft Technology <datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au> wrote: >>I found three major problems with FreeBSD-1.1-Release: >(...) >> >>2) I had X up and running (started with xinit) using twm. In one window I >> received a large file via zmodem. In a second window I just did a >> "make depend" after I reconfigured the kernel. I a third window I >> was typing "ls" and got no echo back. From this point on no keyboard >> input was possible. The system was happy otherwise. I was able to use >> mouse and twm's menu. Also "make depend" run to completion and the >> zmodem receive also finished and I was back at the kermit prompt. >> At this time I used the twm menu to shut X down and got my keyboard >> back. >> >> WHAT happened to my keyboard? >This sounds like the problems I had with syscons in earlier versions of >-current, and, presumably, in 1.1-Release. I used pccons with a hack >to keep the keyboard from hanging on boot up. If you can rebuild and >are using syscons, try pccons instead. You may then have the "keyboard >hang during boot up bang on caps lock key" problem instead. >The new syscons in -current has solved all my keyboard problems. Sorry, but I'm using the standard GENERICAH kernel with pccons. >> >>3) Next I used xinit to fire up X, used twm to start an xterm, xterm >> comes up with the normal shell prompt. >> >> NOW I hit return and I'm back at my original kermit session which >> I used for my zmodem transfer!?!?!? :( >> >> How did I get my old kermit (which I assumed to be dead) back on >> a brand new xterm session. >> >You got the same pty and the kermit was still running. I don't know >why. >>Tibor Sashegyi >> >-- >Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation >HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 >hd@world.std.com Fax: 508 433 5267