| From: Aaron Job Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| 
| Thanks! I'll start there.

I googled for: R3000Z freebsd
and found:
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/67745

Within that you can see what is wrong with our notebooks: the keyboard
processor hangs on an apparently legitimate command.

In particular, see:
  
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=88636+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-amd64/20040704.freebsd-amd64
and use the wayback machine to look at the description of the AT
keyboard hardware:
  
http://web.archive.org/web/20041011052117/http://www.clipx.net/ng/hardware/ng1462d.php

My understanding is that the workaround is in FreeBSD (the PR is
closed).  Perhaps you need to supply a boot flag of some kind to
enable the workaround.  Too bad the PR does not explain this.

There may be important hints within:
  http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/
It appears to be outdated.  Do look at the place where it says
        hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
*maybe* that is the way to enable the workaround.

That page points to an interesting thread:
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-March/004018.html

If I were a FreeBSD user, I'd want the workaround to be documented
clearly.  One place would be in the PR.  Perhaps it is documented in
some place like the release notes.
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