On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Adam Gundy wrote:

> > WHen you say stay on do you mean that they pulse quite fast continually ?
> > or are they solidly on ?
> 
> the lights on the keyboard pulse when the kernel hangs. Unfortunately
> it's difficult to repeat - leaving the machine on for 5 mins then booting
> usually does the trick, except when you _want_ it to hang... ;-)
Ok this is a known problem that sometimes occurs. The problem is the 
keyboard does not respond to the reset command quick enough so the kernel 
re-tries the reset. This end up in a loop retrying and timing out etc.

It is on my fix it list. Basically I need to clean up the reset code, 
extend the timeout and reduce the number of loops.

Cheers,
				Mark


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