7.0-CURRENT panics if scroll lock is pressed during boot

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Wed Jun 14 07:51:50 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:08:48PM +0200, Goran Gajic wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> >It might be another issue in kbdmux, as keyboard not working in the
> >debugger apparently is.  You can try hitting Scroll Lock with kbdmux
> >disabled in device.hints or not compiled into the kernel in order
> >to see if it's the case.  Should the system still panic, you'll at
> >least have the keyboard working in the debugger.
> 
> You were right: when I have disabled kbdmux in /boot/device.hints
> scroll lock hitting is no longer causing panics and I have
> noticed that scroll lock, caps lock and pause/break LEDs are working
> again. For some reason after cvsup at the end of May LEDs stopped
> working..

Did you inform Maksim Yevmenkin of this problem?  He is the author
of kbdmux, so he is very likely to be interested in finding and
fixing such issues.  I carbon copied this message to him.  Perhaps
he will tell if you should file a PR on the problem for future
reference.

-- 
Yar


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