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From: mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] keyboards locks in X, console hickups in no X
Date: 06 Sep 1993 15:05:53 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: d88-jwn@mumrik.nada.kth.se's message of Mon, 6 Sep 1993 13:13:23 GMT


In article <1993Sep6.131323.23825@kth.se> d88-jwn@mumrik.nada.kth.se
(Johan Wåhlin) writes:

   When running X the keyboard will eventually hang.

This is a symptom of an annoying console driver bug in most
derivatives of Net/2.  The simplest way to fix it is to make
/dev/console a symlink to the real tty device, e.g., /dev/vga.

There is a patch in FreeBSD ostensibly to fix this, but it does not
have the desired effect.