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From: mju@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 + XFree 1.3 -> occasional keyboard hangup
Date: 19 Sep 1993 21:12:28 -0400
Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Pittsburgh, PA
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Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no writes:
>Or less hacky, perhaps running an xconsole process will do the job...
Yes, that appears to work -- I have a NetBSD 0.9 system running
XFree86 with an xconsole session pretty much constantly, and I've yet
to see the hangs that others describe. Unfortunately, xconsole
doesn't seem to get any of the console output, but i suppose we can
fix one bug at a time...
--
Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "Free software is NOT the same thing as
mju@mudos.pc.cc.cmu.edu | free beer."
| -Philip Knapp in comp.os.linux