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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 keyboard belly-up
Date: 7 Dec 1996 09:33:04 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corp.
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Message-ID: <58bdkg$h4e@Symiserver2.symantec.com>
References: <5802vn$3a9@anorak.coverform.lan> <58578q$gus@anorak.coverform.lan>
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In <58578q$gus@anorak.coverform.lan>, brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) writes:
>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
>
>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

If you can just for laughs swap the keyboards between all three of them and
see if this fixes it on at least one of them.