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From: markz@ssc.UUCP (Markz Zenier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: V/386 questions
Message-ID: <1072@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 20:11:53 GMT
References: <1381@tolerant.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
Lines: 14
Keywords: lp fd1 com1
Summary: keyboard lockup

In article <1381@tolerant.UUCP>, kennedy@tolerant.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) writes:
> ... I started with a Keytronic keyboard and
> it did some really strange stuff.  If you fiddled Num Lock at the wrong time
> or (honest!) keyed in a ^S to stop the screen, the whole system just died,
> had to reset to recover.  I changed to a Maxiswitch and that went away but
> so did the quick shutdown with CTL-ALT-DEL.  Those are just nuisances I have
> run into and I was curious if anyone else had seen them, and duplicated or
> conquered them.

It wasn't the whole system, just the keyboard. I had the same problem on
my 286 packard bell aka tatung.  If the keyboard processor is slow or something
and the console driver says change that LED, the keyboard microcontroller is
lost in space.  This bug only showed up in 2.3, not DOS or 2.2.  I got
tired of unplugging the keyboard and fixed it the same way you did.