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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: XFree86 keyboard belly-up
Date: 3 Dec 1996 02:23:51 -0000
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I'm sure I've seen people complaining about keyboard locking under
XFree86 3.1.2G and FreeBSD 2-2-*-SNAP - well, it just happened to
me on 2.1.5..... :(
I figured that the machine was alive and also found that I could
still connect. I wrote a very simple program (available on the web
site in my sig) called setcon that uses the VT_ACTIVATE ioctl to
change the current VT.... and lo and behold, switching back to the
X screen restored the keyboard !
It's not a fix, but it's a pretty good work-around :)
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
.