On Sun, 5 May 2002, Ian wrote:
> "break into" how? He said the local console keyboard was totally > unresponsive and you can't ssh in. If hitting the capslock key doesn't > cause the corresponding LED to toggle, doesn't that imply that the keyboard > interupts aren't getting handled? > > It's times like this when it's handy that old Macs had a physical button on > front to create an NMI to get you into the debugger. > > -- Ian Just because caps lock isn't working doesn't mean that he won't be able to break into DDB w/ ctrl-alt-esc. Remember that getty is a process like any other, and that caps lock is a per-tty property, not a keyboard function. DDB hooks into the keyboard at a lower level, and should still work. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
