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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [Q] keyboards locks in X, console hickups in no X Date: 8 Sep 1993 16:20:03 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 39 Message-ID: <26l0nj$jk6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1993Sep6.131323.23825@kth.se> <MYCROFT.93Sep6110554@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <MYCROFT.93Sep6110554@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, Charles Hannum <mycroft@trinity.gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote: > >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. Now this did NOT fix the hanging console bug on my box, as I tried it, which lead to the below fix in FreeBSD. (Thanks Christoph) >There is a patch in FreeBSD ostensibly to fix this, but it does not >have the desired effect. I'm not sure what you are driving at with that last sentence, since FreeBSD doesn't have the hanging console bug. Granted, the fix is non-optimal, but it works until something better comes along. So, in short, FreeBSD does not suffer from the hanging console bug, as I can attest that my box has been running for almost a month with nary a console hang. (And it's sure nice to be able to leave all my windows logged in over-night and come back to them in the morning) So, the effect of the patch is to stop a hanging console, so FreeBSD's fix has the desired effect. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)