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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.servtech.com!news1.io.org!not-for-mail From: mattp@zot.io.org (Matt of the Long Red Hair) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,io.support.unix Subject: X crashes keyboard then computer Date: 30 Apr 1996 18:36:13 -0400 Organization: Internex Online (shell.io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4m64kt$fl9@zot.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: zot.io.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) I've just finished setting up X under FreeBSD 2.1 last night. Everything seems to work fairly well, except that after a short while (between 15 and 30 minutes) running X, my keyboard crashes. This takes the form of either my CTRL or META key locking on or the whole keyboard simply not accepting any keypresses. If I logout of my window manager my keyboard seems to reset but after logging in again it isn't long before the whole system crashes. Similarly, if I just let the system sit after the keyboard crahes, it doesn't take long before the whole system goes down. I'm running a very stock version of xdm from my rc.local file (I haven't done any configuration of xdm from the basic install) and ctwm as my window manager. The system is a 486DX2/50 w/8Mb of RAM. Does anyone have any ideas what's causing this? I couldn't think of any more relevant info to include in this report, so if you've got any questions about how my system is set up, please Email me or follow up to the newsgroup. Matt -- EMail: mattp@io.org | "Sometime they will Home Page: http://www.io.org/~mattp | give a war and Children's International Summer Villages | nobody will come." Home Page: http://www.io.org/~mattp/CISV | - Carl Sandburg