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by Jesse Peterson :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,

I've had for a while a USB keyboard that I've been using with NetBSD 3.1/amd64. Only recently however did I get around to actually physically unplugging my old PS/2 keyboard. After the next restart of NetBSD was crashing when XFree86 started. I tried to get a backtrace of the panics without much luck.

After many hours of debugging what could be the cause I realized that I had recently unplugged the PS/2 keyboard. Upon plugging it back in and restarting everything was fine - X11 started just as it did.

On a related note I tried to test NetBSD 4.0_RC4/amd64 in an attempt to find the cause (to no avail) and upon realizing the PS/2 keyboard issue I plugged it in while the system was running. Plugging in the keyboard caused a kernel panic instantly.

Is this a known issue? Perhaps something specific to my hardware? I might be able to help debug if anybody has some ideas. I'd like to be able to just use my USB keyboard without having a PS/2 keyboard also plugged in.

Dmesg attached.

THanks,
- Jesse


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