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From: kenny@festival.ed.ac.uk (K J MacDonald)
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 + XFree 1.3 -> occasional keyboard hangup
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Organization: Edinburgh University
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 10:13:00 GMT
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Mark_Weaver@brown.edu wrote:
: In article <27f382$7dc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) writes:
: > 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.

: The problem happens every time /etc/daily is run.  This causes a
: SIGHUP to be sent to syslogd, which makes it reset.  When syslogd
: resets, it closes and then reopens /dev/console, which takes pccons
: out of X mode.  This problem has been fixed for XFree86 2.0 (when it
: comes out), but in the meantime you can fix it by switching to codrv.

	I have also had this very same problem with Linux 0.99pl12,
XFree86 1.3, AMD-386SX-25. I presume the same thing is happening under
Linux? I'm at work now, but I can't remember seeing a '/etc/daily'
program. Any other possibilities ?

	Kenny.
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Kenneth MacDonald		 E-mail: kenny@ed
Dept. of Geology & Geophysics	"Allow me to introduce myself, Major Dennis
University of Edinburgh		 Bloodnok, International Christmas Pudding