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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: more of my netbsd-i386 troubles
Date: 6 Jun 1996 22:09:07 +0200
Organization: FWINS, University of Amsterdam
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Message-ID: <4p7dt3$1ho@mail.fwi.uva.nl>
References: <alex.833929768@sun1.acm.rpi.edu>
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alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu (Alex Scotti) writes:
>hello all.
>now the machine is up and running with x11. but i've got a new problem which
>is driving me insane. every now and then (or on command, if i try to play
>"xgalaga") i cannot type anything on my keyboard. stty sane in my current
>xterm does nothing.. i cannot even get my window manager to respond to
>keyboard shortcuts when this happens. ctrl-alt-backspace wont even kill x.
>_nothing_ keyboard related works when this happens, yet the rest of the
>machine seems to function perfectly. i can still continue to use and launch
>applications using my mouse and can even use cut and paste to send "halt" into
>a shell.
This used to happen if X was running and output would be sent to the
tty X was running on. This could, for example, happen when console
message were printed.
This is a bit of an old problem, so maybe it's not the problem
you're talking about, but you could try to make sure that either XFree
runs on a free VT under netbsd (and certainly not vt 0), or try to run
an xconsole or xterm -C to catch the console output.
- Frank
--
Frank van der Linden, frank@fwi.uva.nl
Use NetBSD, it's Unix, it's free and works on:
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