On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Perry F Nguyen wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, Eric Bosch wrote:
>
> > This is probably not the appropriate list for this, but maybe someone has
> > a solution! I finally got my system stabilized by enabling tagged
> > queing, and have noticed one odd problem that I didn't notice occuring
> > prior to migrating to ELF. After doing heavy disk activity in X for a 5
> > minute or greater duration, and I attempt to exit X by pressing
> > <CTRL><ALT><BS> the keyboard no longer responds. I'm not certain if the
> > kernel is crashed, or not, but I may recreate again tomorrow, leaving
> > SLIP connection up, and attempt to FTP from another site to see if
> > anything else is amiss. Has anyone else had this problem, or know what
> > to do about it? Thanks
>
> You may want to check if it's a motherboard problem. I sort of had this
> "problem" also, I read the motherboard's manual and found the problem
> instantly.
>
> Some green motherboards have a hotkey, that if enabled, will lock the
> keyboard up until the CMOS/BIOS password is typed in.
>
> My BIOS had a hotkey combination of exactly that CTRL-ALT-BS ... first
> thought it was a problem with X, then I found I could do it from any
> place.
>
> BTW, this message should have gone to linux-x11 not linux-kernel
>
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