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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!not-for-mail From: bouyer@chassiron.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: more of my netbsd-i386 troubles Date: 9 Jun 1996 12:39:35 GMT Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), Paris Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4pegm7$oq3@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <alex.833929768@sun1.acm.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: chassiron.ensta.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.38 (pre-beta) Alex Scotti (alex@sun1.acm.rpi.edu) wrote: > > hello all. > > 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. How do you start X ? startx or xdm ? If it is with xdm, look at the /etc/ttys file, and mark as 'off' console and ttyv0 (or the ttyv? where you are running X if you are using the virtual consoles driver). This should help. -- -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --