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From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any Experience w/ Triton II (430HX) MBoards & FreeBSD?
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 17:42:16 -0400
Organization: Old Dominion University
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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Jonathan Lemon wrote:

> I have an ASUS P55T2P4 with 32M of older EDO ram, amd am running 2.1R on
> it.  The only problem I've had is that the keyboard appears to freeze up
> after a while when I'm running X - I've only had this for a week or so and
> haven't had time to track this down yet.  (sc0 driver, serial mouse, #9 771
> card -- the keyboard freezes, but not the mouse; I can log in via the
> network, kill X, and run kbd_mode to recover the keyboard - any ideas?)

kbd_mode -e while in X should give you your keyboard back.  Don't 
kbd_mode -a ( you probably already know this :) while in X, otherwise 
keyboard control goes back to console.  

Jamie

I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.