On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:18:11 +0530,
"Sachin P Sant" <ssant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Its not a total machine hang. Once i hit the go command , i get out of KDB
>, but am not able to use keyboard or mouse. I am also unable to switch
>between different sessions. This is the limitation mentioned on the
>oss.sgi.com site.
>
>" The kernel debugger has trouble with some keyboard controllers (this is a
>bug in KDB), and will appear to hang afer typing 'go'. When this occurs,
>one way to unhang the keyboard controller is to remote login to your system
>and as root restart 'gpm' subsystem. "
>
>As mentioned if i restart the gpm , i get back the keyboard and mouse
>control. This problem dosen't seem to be occuring with 2.5 KDB kernel. So i
>wanted to know if there is any patch available which i can apply on 2.4.18
>KDB kernel to fix the above problem.
No patch available. The 2.5 kernel has a complete rewrite of the
keyboard handling, whatever the problem is has been fixed by the 2.5
kernel changes. Unless a keyboard expert on this list can point to
patches that might reset the keyboard controller correctly after kdb
has used polling mode then I am afraid that there is nothing that I can
do.
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