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SubjectRe: keyboard/swap bug?
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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