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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: @#%^$! keyboard troubles AGAIN!!!
Date: 19 Jan 1994 06:21:13 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <199401182225.RAA07076@freenet.buffalo.edu>,
Christopher L. Mikkelson <ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>Hello all!
>  I have been having troubles with X and my keyboard.  While running an
>xinit session, with xterm and Seyon, I noticed that I was losing keys.
>Not dropping characters, mind you, but LOSING KEYS!  First, I noticed
>that I wasn't sending any <RET>s, but had to send a ^M instead of pressing
>the ENTER key.  Then I start to lose other charachters from the screen.
>Has anyone else had any such troubles?

Most often the cause of this is from X and another process trying to
both access the keyboard, but since you are running xinit this shouldn't
be the problem.

What console driver are you using?



Nate
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