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From: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 and X console hang
In-Reply-To: rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU's message of 26 Oct 1993 02:06:59 GMT
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Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 11:07:03 GMT
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In article <2ai0o3$9u6@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU> rxtgep@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Glen Pill) writes:
> Is anyone else having or had the problem of the console hanging when using
> NetBSD 0.9 and XFree86 1.3u1 with xdm ???  It seems to happen nightly as
> when I check it out in the mornings, sure enough the keyboard is dead to
> the world.  The mouse pointer still moves around though, just the keyboard
> seems to be affected.

This is a known problem which has been fixed in XFree86 2.0, which will
be released on October 31.

        Mark
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