Strange keyboard behavior

[Donn Miller]

Latest -current, just cvsuped and build world/kernel yesterday.  In a 
nutshell, if I reboot out of FreeBSD, my keyboard becomes 
non-functional, until I power my laptop off/on again.  For example, say 
I use reboot(8) to boot out of FreeBSD.  When the boot loader comes up, 
which in my case is LILO, I find that I cannot navigate with the 
keyboard.  Seemingly, none of the keys work.

To diagnose what was going on, I configured LILO to boot straight into 
Linux.  OK, so I reboot out of FreeBSD, and reach the LILO menu.  I hit 
a few keys, and see no response.  Once Linux boots, I can see the keys 
that I hit "replaying" on the screen.  Apparently, what's going on is 
the keyboard buffer isn't being flushed.

This is only when I reboot after running FreeBSD-current.  If I power-on 
from the off state, or reboot from Linux or Windows, the keyboard 
behavior is normal.  Also, once running FreeBSD, keyboard behavior is 
normal (provided I boot "cold" or from any other OS, not FreeBSD).

Maybe it's something specific to my HP Pavilion notebook and the latest 
FreeBSD-current... :-/