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From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD1.0] keyboard is gone
Date: 19 Nov 1993 07:26:41 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) wrote:
: In article <2bvp3q$pa6@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) writes:
:    under X someone has stolen my keyboard (aprox. after 2 hours),
:    i've got my mouse and downed my X.
:    arrived on my console keyboard is ok, startx,
:    everything ok.

: That is very strange - you're using syscons, you have only gettys
: on /dev/ttyvXX, you're using XFree86 2.0...  Hmmmmmm!  It works
: *great* for me!  It must be something else lurking in the background.
: What else can you tell me about your setup?

:        xconsole runs ok, floppy errors are displayed, but no
:        talk-requests.

: That's not for xconsole to do anyway - talk requests go directly to the
: `users' logged in on vtys and xterms.

:      under other users:
:        xconsole says "cant open console" and displays nothing

: Needs to be suid root!

: 				Jordan

sorry i can't say much more about this, because my keyboard
is still ok, no error, no hang ... i don't know why ...

Lars.