Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:29:48 -0600 | From | David A Willmore <> | Subject | Re: keyboard/swap bug? |
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On Mar 18, 9:54pm, Jeffery S. Coy Jr. wrote: > Subject: keyboard/swap bug? > since about 1.3.72, i have been having problems with my keyboard. no > oops's, it's just been acting up. i had been considering that my > keyboard might be going bad, but i thought i would check here first. > > with 1.3.72 & 73 i was getting lots of "keyboard error" messages, and > occasionally keystrokes on the qwerty side would generate "unrecognized > scancode: xxx", while the numpad side would be fine. > > this stopped with 1.3.74, but the console occasionally stops recognizing > the arrow keys, it would just display "OA", "OB", "OC", or "OD" rather > than interpret the codes. running the ``reset'' program that comes with > ncurses fixes the problem. > > anyway, i just noticed that the arrow keys only seem to act up when i > leave a console long enough for it to swap out to disk; IOW if i am > logged into vt1, then switch to vt2 and stress the system (with a big > compile or a long emacs session), then switch back to vt1 i usually have > to type reset to get back the use of my arrow keys. > > has anyone else noticed anything like this?
I can second these exact complaints. I was shocked to find that my keyboard was entirely unresponsive one morning. Nothing woke the system up and I don't relish power cycling UNIX machines. Definitely got up on the wrong side of the bed that morning....
Cheers, David
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