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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2296 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:52:48 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: XFreeX86-1.2 Loosing chars and mouse events In-Reply-To: mykes@shell.portal.com's message of Fri, 26 Feb 1993 06:26:57 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Feb26092018@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <C2wysD.287p@austin.ibm.com> <C31Lx1.45z@unix.portal.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 15:20:18 GMT Lines: 32 In article <C31Lx1.45z@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes: I'm using the patchkit kernel... latest and greatest from the ftp sites. DITTO for me: Lars Fredriksen (fredriks@austin.ibm.com) wrote: : Hi, : Has anyone seen XFreeX86 1.2 loose characters and mouse events? : I am running with pccons and patchkit 0.2.1, and I am not using the : kernals that they provided. Also I am having problems with the : state of the control key. If you hit ^C or something sometimes the : state of the control key gets stuck in the down position. If you depress : control the keyboard behaves normally again. Lastly backspace doesn't work : after a while. If I do stty < /dev/tty it says >From XFree86-1.2-386BSD-FAQ on agate.berkeley.edu (128.32.136.1): 6: Why are random mouse or keyboard events lost? This is a sympom of another process such as getty runing concurrently with the server. This can happen if you unintentionally run getty and xdm togeather. If getty is running, it steals characters from the input stream of the keyboard or mouse. In X mode, the keyboard sends up down events, so getty can steal just the up or down event. Control and shift keys can get stuck up or down because of this. The solution is to disable getty if you are using xdm. Rich