In article <199901161503.PAA08658@orchard.arlington.ma.us>,
	sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us (Bill Sommerfeld) writes:
>> While I can't say for sure, I remember that some keyboards had drawn more
>> power than had been expected, leading to a H/W lockup of the keyboard
>> itself.  The fix was adding a moderate value cap (~10-100uF?) to the
>> keyboard's VCC line near the keyboard connector.  
> 
> Well, based on some printf's I threw into pcintr, that's likely not
> the problem -- I'm still getting keyboard interrupts when i press a
> key during the lockup; moreover, the caps lock and num lock LED's
> continue to toggle as expected which suggests the keyboard is still
> sane..)

This happend to me, when I was running X with xdm *and* had a getty
running on ttyv0.

Matthias
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