Re: Notebook keyboard freezing

["Michael R. Batchelor" <michaelb@ind-info.com>]

>It turns out that
>when I am root, using csh and vt220 term, if my finger hits the
>touchpad, the keyboard no longer responds, making the machine look like
>it is dead.


I haven't used a notebook, but I've got an eMachine Celeron with a very
similar problem. Root, csh, and vt220. I edited /etc/ttys and changed
the default type to pcvt25 and think that may have fixed the problem,
but the jury's still out. I first though it was related to a Belkin
Omniview Pro switch, but was able to make it happen without the switch.
It seems that after a while it just stops responding to anything. The
telltale sign that it's dead is that the numlock, capslock, and
scrolllock keys won't light up the lights anymore.

The machine is a 433 Celeron, 128 MB ram, 4 GB IDE. The modem's been
pulled and a 3C905 in place, running OpenBSD 2.7 standard install from
CD, no special changes to anything yet.

Sure would be nice to know how to make sure I can stop this. I want to
replace several co-located Linux boxes with OpenBSD, but I got to have
them solid before I can swap.

Michael