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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!mr.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.walltech.com!hsnx.wco.com!news.wco.com!not-for-mail From: gintang1@mlode.com (V. Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5: psm device broken? Date: 10 Sep 1996 10:16:09 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 28 Message-ID: <513f59$ll@news.wco.com> References: <322A3E35.41C67EA6@nlc.com> <50u9mf$dup@ardbeg.islay.sub.org> <32344BF0.41C67EA6@rwwa.com> <511jme$a06@helena.MT.net> <513dsf$sfk@news.wco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mlode.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] V. Carlson (gintang1@mlode.com) wrote: : : Hmm.. This is interesting. I am also having a keyboard hang problem but I am NOT running : psm in the kernel. It occurs when I change consoles a lot. I had three consoles and doing a : couple ALT F1, ALT F2, AALT F1, etc.. would make it hang. It seamed to occur once when I was : running vi. Although it didn't happen often. However, I have now added another console in : the kernel and have not had the problem. But, I haven't done many more ALT's since I am : running X. : : Hardware. : SuperMicro PPro200 P6DNF with one processor. This is the Natoma chipset. It may be 440FX. : Revision 0.1. PPro with 256k L1 cache. : : 64 megs of ram. : Matrox Millinium Video Card. : Microsoft Serial Mouse (older Model). : Adaptech 2940UW harddisk controller. : Quantum 4.2gig QW3400W (# I think. Atlis Fast Wide) harddisk. : Toshiba 6.7x SCSI CDROM. : : I have had no other kind of lockups whatsoever. : Ah yes I forgot the most important thing. FreeBSD version 2.2-960801 snapshot. Now I was running 2.1.5 and had this problem. I cannot conferm that this problem still exists with 2.2 though. But I think it does.