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From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: keyboard locking up
Date: 11 Jan 1996 04:12:09 GMT
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Robert Morris (rtm@cabernet.eecs.harvard.edu) wrote:
: I run a recent NetBSD-current on a 90 mHz Pentium with an Intel
: Neptune motherboard. After I run xfree86 3.1.2 for about 20 minutes,
: the keyboard stops working. The caps-lock light will toggle when I
: press caps-lock up (so there's power), but that's about it. If I
: re-start X, the keyboard works again. I have an ATI WinTurbo video
: card.

: This also happens under 3.1.2B. And on a more recent Triton
: motherboard. And with NetBSD-current from August.

: Any ideas what might be wrong?

Did you try swapping your keyboard?  That's the first thing I'd try.

Mark