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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: More on pccons/XFree86 problems (keyboard hangs) Date: 14 Dec 92 14:41:31 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 40 Message-ID: <veit.724344091@du9ds3> References: <1992Dec13.172900.451@ponds.uucp> <1992Dec14.115444.12691@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de Keywords: 386BSD X11 XFree86 console pccons In <1992Dec14.115444.12691@news.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes: >In article <1992Dec13.172900.451@ponds.uucp> rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) writes: >> Try it out yourself, inside of an X window, do a : >> >> kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` >> >> and your keyboard will lock up. >> >> >>I will probably try and examine the stock pccons.c to determine where >>the problem can be corrected... but if someone has an idea/fix, feel >>free to beat me to it... >> [...correct explanation of the problem follows...] In this moment, I have no access to my 386bsd system, but if the problem occurs with codrv, there will be a fast fix for the current version. However, I doubt, that the problem will occur exactly as described, because codrv in X-Windows mode does not access the /dev/console device, like the original pccons did, but an independent /dev/kbd, which cannot be locked by closing. The effect of killing may influence the behavior of the shell that started xinit, but there are some modifications in codrv which regenerate the console attribute (TIOCCONS settable) and thus should not hang a process on /dev/console. Anyway, I'll check it. >I don't know if any of the replacement pccons (or codrv) drivers fix this. > Christoph >-- >.signature: Connection timed out Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "Understand me correctly: | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | I'm NOT the WIZARD OF OS" (Holger)