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#! rnews 2059 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!metro.atlanta.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!202.232.2.100!np1.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!news.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp!train.ad.jp!iroha.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp!nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp!yokota From: yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Keyboard Lockup; xload Date: 17 Mar 1997 02:54:58 GMT Organization: Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Japan Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5gibq2$3o9$1@nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> References: <5g7frp$221@nntp1.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp X-Newsreader: mnews [version 1.19PL2] 1996-01/26(Fri) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37257 lowtek@best.com wrote: lowtek>>I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6 on my Micron Millenia P100PCI system with a PS/2 lowtek>>mouse and keyboard, with a kernel compiled with psm0 support. lowtek>>Occasionally, my keyboard will totally lockup and not respond -- lowtek>>this usually happens at boot-up, even though I was able to send lowtek>>keystrokes to BootEasy to select what partition to boot from. I've lowtek>>also experienced keyboard lockups after exiting the kernel debugger lowtek>>(ddb) with the "c" command. I tried putting "options ASYNCH" in my lowtek>>kernel config file, but that hasn't helped. What is causing these lowtek>>keyboard lock-ups? There is known conflict between the console driver `syscons' and the PS/2 mouse driver `psm' under 2.1.X. (The keyboard and the PS/2 mouse send data through the same keyboard controller, thus, their drivers need to access the same port...) There is another option "options PSM_NO_RESET", which makes it less likely to let `psm' to screw up the keyboard controller. But, this won't solve all of your problem, I am afraid. FreeBSD 2.2, which is now being released, has better keyboard/mouse access routines and less prone to lock-up. I would suggest you to try 2.2, if you can. Kazu