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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2023 comp.os.386bsd.questions:8055 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: @#%^$! keyboard troubles AGAIN!!! Date: 19 Jan 1994 06:21:13 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <2hijgp$ngu@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <199401182225.RAA07076@freenet.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <199401182225.RAA07076@freenet.buffalo.edu>, Christopher L. Mikkelson <ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu> wrote: >Hello all! > I have been having troubles with X and my keyboard. While running an >xinit session, with xterm and Seyon, I noticed that I was losing keys. >Not dropping characters, mind you, but LOSING KEYS! First, I noticed >that I wasn't sending any <RET>s, but had to send a ^M instead of pressing >the ENTER key. Then I start to lose other charachters from the screen. >Has anyone else had any such troubles? Most often the cause of this is from X and another process trying to both access the keyboard, but since you are running xinit this shouldn't be the problem. What console driver are you using? Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me