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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2069 ; Thu, 25 Feb 93 10:10:35 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: XFreeX86-1.2 Loosing chars and mouse events In-Reply-To: fredriks@austin.ibm.com's message of Tue, 23 Feb 1993 18:17:01 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb23220815@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <C2wysD.287p@austin.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 04:08:15 GMT Lines: 24 In article <C2wysD.287p@austin.ibm.com> fredriks@austin.ibm.com (Lars Fredriksen) writes: Hi, Has anyone seen XFreeX86 1.2 loose characters and mouse events? I am running with pccons and patchkit 0.2.1, and I am not using the kernals that they provided. Also I am having problems with the state of the control key. If you hit ^C or something sometimes the state of the control key gets stuck in the down position. If you depress control the keyboard behaves normally again. Lastly backspace doesn't work after a while. If I do stty < /dev/tty it says ... erase ^H Could someone please enlighten me as to what my problem is? This can be a symtom of a process other than the X xerver reading the keyboard or mouse port and stealing characters from the input stream. I've seen it happen when both getty and xdm are unintentionally run at the same time. getty steals what characters it can and the server gets the leftovers. Since the keyboard is sending raw up/down key events, getty can steal just the control up or control down event. Rich