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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ljg From: ljg@space.physics.uiowa.edu (Larry Granroth) Subject: Re: [Q] keyboards locks in X, console hickups in no X Message-ID: <CCy37p.LDC@space.physics.uiowa.edu> Organization: The University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <1993Sep6.131323.23825@kth.se> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993 18:26:11 GMT Lines: 27 Johan Wåhlin (d88-jwn@mumrik.nada.kth.se) wrote: : When running X the keyboard will eventually hang. The time until this : happens is varying, I have not found a action from the user that might : cause it. : When running of the normal PC-console. The console will sometimes get : into a state where it does not accept control sequences (something : like TIOCTRL). This I have found normally happens just after a write : by syslogd. After this have happened I cannot run more, vi or emacs. : Logging out and logging in againg "cures" the problem though.. 8). : I thought that maybe syslogd is what causes the keyboard hangs in X as well. : I am running NetBSD-0.9 and XFree86-1.3 (386BSD version). : PC is ISA, IDE, SCSI. : Any thoughts? : -- : /Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8)) I observe similar behavior on two similar PC's. I thought it might have something to do with running xdm-des compiled for 386bsd, but someone posted a note in another comp.os.386bsd group indicating that he had recompiled everything under netbsd and still sees the keyboard lockup. (No useful info here. Just a "me too.") larry-granroth@uiowa.edu