Keyboard locks after several uses of any of the lock keys.

["Allen Saunders" <allens@aegisresearch.com>]

Please let me know if this message would be more appropriately posted in
misc -- this is very possibly not a "bug" as much as a configuration issue
(one would hope).

I have been having an infuriating problem with two different OpenBSD
installs on two very different machines. It appeared that the keyboard was
randomly locking, forcing me to remote reboot, or in the case of one
machine, hard reset! I finally determined a way to reproduce the problem --
if I hit the caps lock, num lock, or scroll lock keys a couple of times it
will cause the keyboard to freeze.

A couple of things to note here:
-the keyboard doesn't lock immediately when you first toggle a lock key. It
seems to take between 2-5 presses of the key before this occurs. It will
*always* occur though if you hit these keys, and will never occur (I don't
think) unless you use these keys.
-I am not running X on any of these machines, so it's not the old getty vs.
X server issue
-It occurs regardless of any program or shell that I am using at the time.
-I use customized kernels on most of these machines, but the behavious is
identical even when using the default generic binary.
-the keyboards in question are standard US keyboards with those blasted
Windows keys on them (104 key, I guess).
-I'm using OpenBSD 2.7 on both machines, and both are PII class machines.
-this affects two out of four computers I'm using with OpenBSD. Each has an
utterly different hardware configuration, so it's hard to draw any common
traits that may be causing it.
-not using these keys is *not* an acceptable solution, so don't suggest it
:)


I have *no* idea where to even start trying to solve this, so anyone's help
would be much appreciated.


Thanks,
Allen Saunders
allen@aegisresearch.com