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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
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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.