On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:07 -0500, H. Wade Minter wrote: > I have a Dell Optiplex 755, with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip. I have > installed 7-RELEASE/amd64 on it. 2GB of RAM, 6GB of swap. > > The install went fine, but post-install I'm running into a problem > where the USB keyboard will just lock up. I can still ping and SSH > into the system, but after about 2 minutes of activity, the keyboard > becomes nonresponsive. > > I can move the USB plug to a different port, and see that it's > recognize, and the keyboard comes back, but a couple of minutes later, > it locks again. > > I've checked with things in the BIOS, but can't find any setting that > makes a difference. I've tried both the 4BSD and ULE scheduler, no > changes. > > Any thoughts or known issues that would explain this? When the lockup > happens, there's nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg to indicate a > problem. > > The only other clues are that sometimes, right before it locks, it > will go into a repeat loop on a keypress, and it seems to be able to > be reliably triggered by switching virtual consoles (though not > exclusively). > > I've tried different keyboards, so it doesn't appear to be a hardware > issue. I have seen this happening with OptiPlex 740 and OpenSuSE 10.3. Updating the BIOS on the OptiPlex fixed the problem. In my case, I was able to find reports of this behavior on the Dell's Linux forums, so it certainly was not limited to my specimen. I do realize that your machine is different, so YMMV.
> > Thoughts? > > --Wade > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"