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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: X-window in NetBSD freezes my keyboard! Date: 5 Apr 1994 23:40:31 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2nsstf$fpn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2n8hmf$oj1@ccnews.nctu.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2n8hmf$oj1@ccnews.nctu.edu.tw>, Sun Zhi-Bang <u7923081@cc.nctu.edu.tw> wrote: >Hi, all *BSD folks: >Then i installed XFree86-2.1 , setup >Xconfig and enter X-window with 'startx', it was o.k. with twm and xterm >in the first few minutes. But my keyboard would freeze after I typed >many keys to let it do many jobs like FTPing, compiling or TARing... This is generally a symptom of the pccons console driver. Your best bet is to use the syscons driver available in FreeBSD >= 1.0 which does a better job and offers virtual consoles as well. If that doesn't solve the problem the most common problem is having both X and a getty or another process both vying for the keyboard presses, and at some point in time they both lockout all keyboard events. Using xdm and disabling the getty on the console will fix that problem, but you need to have another window to login in order to get that to work. (Or boot single user) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.