Re: kern/59242: keyboard/mouse stop working in X

["Paul Goyette via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59242; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/59242: keyboard/mouse stop working in X
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 06:34:44 -0700 (PDT)

 On Wed, 2 Apr 2025, RVP via gnats wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/59242; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > > At unpredictable interval, and with no known/reproducible trigger, the
 > > keyboard and mouse events stop.  All keyboard activity, including Ctrl-
 > > Alt sequences for switching vt or entering ddb, just stop.  And, after
 > > approximately 1 minute, background processes seem to stop - as an example,
 > > a running xclock ceases to display movement of the seconds hand.
 > >
 >
 > DRMKMS bug, methinks. Does it occur if you switch to genfb(4) + wsfb(4)?
 >
 > ```
 > userconf=disable i915drmkms*
 > userconf=disable radeon*
 > userconf=disable nouveau*
 > ```
 
 IT would be difficult to try this, as it often takes hours (Or even
 fdays) for the problem to occur.  genfb is quite "uncomfortable" to
 use for any length of time.
 
 > in /boot.cfg; and then read:
 >
 > https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/x11/how_to_use_wsfb_uefi_bios_framebuffer/
 
 Thanks for the pointer.  It might make it more "comfortable" to use
 the preceeding stuff.
 
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