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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft 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 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.93Sep6110554@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <1993Sep6.131323.23825@kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu 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.