Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!night.primate.wisc.edu!kbad.eglin.af.mil!rpi!sun1.acm.rpi.edu!alex From: alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu (Alex Scotti) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: more of my netbsd-i386 troubles Date: 4 Jun 96 23:09:28 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Lines: 30 Message-ID: <alex.833929768@sun1.acm.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.acm.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) hello all. thanks to everyone here who helped me with my first problem.. the install floppy was indeed bad.. whihc is odd because i created it only a day before i tried to use it and didnt exactly try to abuse it.. i guess the floppy driver is pretty hyper sensitive. now the machine is up and running with x11. but i've got a new problem which is driving me insane. every now and then (or on command, if i try to play "xgalaga") i cannot type anything on my keyboard. stty sane in my current xterm does nothing.. i cannot even get my window manager to respond to keyboard shortcuts when this happens. ctrl-alt-backspace wont even kill x. _nothing_ keyboard related works when this happens, yet the rest of the machine seems to function perfectly. i can still continue to use and launch applications using my mouse and can even use cut and paste to send "halt" into a shell. has anyone experienced anything like this ever? it's really bizzare. after i reboot the machine, the keyboard works fine again, until it "randomly" dies on me sometime later. ive had the same problem with pcvt and pccons. using pcvt, i cant switch to another virtual session when this happens. but it has only happened to me when running x, so perhaps this is some odd xfree86 related problem? help me if you can. thanks, -alex