Re: Notebook keyboard freezing

[rob <europax@home.com>]

I am going to try to ssh into it, so I can do some more experimentation
without having to uncleanly power it down.  I will take a look at the
/etc/ttys.  Thanks.  Rob.



"Michael R. Batchelor" wrote:
> 
> >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