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From: vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: NetBSD 0.9 + XFree 1.3 -> occasional keyboard hangup
Date: 18 Sep 1993 13:42:26 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <27f382$7dc@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
NNTP-Posting-Host: carol.fwi.uva.nl
Keywords: NetBSD, XFree86, keyboard

Hello,

I'm still trying out NetBSD 0.9, and have installed XFree 1.3. It works
OK, except for one thing: every once in a while (while in X), the keyboard
locks up. I can still use the mouse, exit X, and then it works again, although
I once could not send signals (^C, ^\, ^Z) via the keyboard anymore after
exiting X this way.

I used to run 386bsd 0.1 + pk, and XFree 1.2, and things worked OK then, so the
problem must be either in NetBSD 0.9, or XFree 1.3. I don't think there are any
oddities in my setup:

- mouse on /dev/tty00
- this in /etc/ttys:
	console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3 off secure
	vga     "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3 on secure
- this is /dev/vga, /dev/console:
	crw-------    1 root     tty       12,   0 Sep 18 15:21 /dev/vga
	crw-------    1 root     tty        0,   0 Sep 18 15:20 /dev/console
  (am running X as root)

The only problem I can remember that I ever had with my keyboard, is that
earlier versions of codrv locked up the keyboard when booting. Later versions
fixed this, however. Of course, I am now no longer using codrv, just the
plain pccons from NetBSD (oh yeah, I #undef'ed FAT_CURSOR in it :))

Does anybody have any idea what might be going wrong here?

Thanks,

Frank
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