[20240] in Athena Bugs
csw hokey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Mar 16 15:00:58 2002
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:00:53 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200203162000.PAA17732@multics.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
cc: sipb-office@mit.edu
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I encountered a variety of lovely failures on coleco-sidewinder (9.0.23
sunblde) just now:
While typing, suddenly the letter "h" started producing "hm".
xev showed that only an h event was being received. The letter
'm' did nothing.
I unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in.
'h' produces only 'h'. 'm' is not produced by anything.
Also, I cannot type a capital B (nothing happens). Lowercase
B works just fine.
STOP-A produces no 'ok' prompt, but the machine freezes,
and typing 'go' works.
'eeprom' shows the output going somewhere sensical looking (screen?)
Logging out doesn't help.
CTRL-P kills the X server, but it restarts immediately
with no text-mode login prompt. THe 'm' still doesn't work.
I unplug the keyboard, and unplug the Y-mouse adapter (with
nothing attached to it). I plug the keyboard back in. I
get a flickering white screen. STOP-A doesn't seem to work
at all (much less display).
The power button doesn't work.
I hold down the power button for 5s and the machine goes off.
I start the machine with the power button. The monitor stays
black. I'm told the machine pings. Still no output.
I try swapping the monitor cable from the PCI video card to
the onboard card. No change. Monitor still black and power-saved.
I give up, as I have to leave.
--jhawk
