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From: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Linking /dev/console to /dev/vga
Message-ID: <1993Sep8.133230.4477@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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Reply-To: jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:32:30 GMT
I, too, am having the keyboard locking problem with X and NetBSD-0.9.
I read the solution of making /dev/console a sym link to /dev/vga, but
that made xdm unable to initialize xconsole and didn't make the
keyboard locking problem go away. I was fortunate enough to be logged
in one time when it happened, and it was at the top of the hour, and
since I was logged in I was able to kill my login xterm with fvwm
rather than rebooting. When xdm took control with its login window I
was once again able to type.
I tried removing the hourly crontab entry, since the problem happened
on the hour, but when I came home this morning my system was locked
and I had to reboot. (Well, my keyboard was locked--but since I was
at the xdm login screen I couldn't just logout with my mouse.)
This is getting frustrating. But it still beats the hell out of DOS!
--
John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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