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From: "Eric J. Rossin" <ejr@nlc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5: psm device broken?
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 18:53:57 -0700
Organization: Next Level Communications / General Instrument
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Hi all!

I just upgraded from 2.1 -> 2.1.5 (from CDROM). I used the "upgrade"
feature, which went smoothly, merged my /etc changes, then rebooted
(still with the GENERIC kernel); all was well (I upgraded only the
binaries, docs and kernel source).

I then rebuilt my kernel using my 2.1 config file (which, is essentially
GENERIC without some drivers and with the psm driver enabled). This
time, after what appeared to be a normal re-boot, the keyboard was
dead.I didn't have the ability to remotely log in to see if the OS was
still running, but there were no messages in /var/log/messages to
believe it wasn't.

When I disabled the psm driver, everything worked again (fortunately, I
still had an old serial mouse lying around :). 

psm worked fine for me in 2.1 (like I said, I used the same config file
for 2.1.5), but appears to hang the keyboard under 2.1.5.

any ideas?

thanks,

-eric (ejr@nlc.com)