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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 keyboard belly-up
Date: 5 Dec 1996 01:07:38 -0000
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <58388u$3cg@symiserver2.symantec.com>,
tedm@agora.rdrop.com writes:
: Of course, you can always go to the local junk dealer and just buy another
: keyboard for $5 or so. That's what I have done with this problem in
: the past, it seems that some PC's and some keyboards don't get along very well.
: I've had keyboard locking occur even on DOS machines.
I've seen this happen on 3 machines now (no, they don't share the same
keyboard ;) One running 2.1.5, one running 2.2-960801 and the other
running 2.2-961014 (same version as 960801?)
In all cases, the keyboard's have never given any other problems.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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