Subject: Re: adb problem
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/15/1997 16:24:06
On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

>  SE/30, July 10th -current, GENERIC-36 kernel
> 
> The problem:
> 
>  I briefly tried using the GENERIC-35 kernel, and I had a lot of trouble
> with the adb routines. Here's a successful output from GENERIC-36:
> 
> adb: using II series hardware support
> adb: cleanup: nothing returned
> adb: ADBReInit complete
> adb: keyboard at 2
> adb: 100 dpi mouse at 3
> 
> When I was using GENERIC-35 (SBC, but that's irrelevant, I think) I'd get
> as far as the "adb: cleanup: nothing returned" line and the machine would
> hang. Alternately, sometimes it wouldn't hang, but the keyboard wouldn't
> talk to the rest of the system. The adb port into which the keyboard was
> plugged didn't really seem to matter.

Have you tried resetting PRAM?  My PB145 has that same hang and
occasionally the keyboard will disappear.  Plugging in a second keyboard
is sometimes sufficient to get around it, but eventually it refuses to
recognize it no matter what, and I just have to do a command-option-p-r
zap and redo all the settings that depend on it.  If I used it enough, I'd
probably DL techtool, zap it, change my settings, then store the PRAM
contents for later recovery....  I have no idea what causes the problem,
though.


David

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