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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09!wzv!guido From: guido@wzv.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: XFree86 problems: the bell, keyboard hanging overnight Message-ID: <4095@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 15 Nov 92 21:10:06 GMT References: <BxM1qt.2xC@unx.sas.com> <RICH.92Nov13110116@omicron.Rice.edu> Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 24 In article <RICH.92Nov13110116@omicron.Rice.edu> Rich@rice.edu writes: >Support for the bell under X has been added to XFree86 using either >Holgers new `keycap' driver or a modified 0.1 pccons driver. > >The current status is: it's gone through alpha testing and is ready >for the next beta test. If you want it early, feel free to beta test >it. After the beta test it will be in the general release. > >I've not been able to track down the cause of the keyboard hanging >overnight. I've narrowed it down to something invoked by /etc/daily, >but we need more information before we have an idea of the cause. > >Rich Murphey I am also having problems on my system, but it doesnt hang my keyboard. I usually use X either with startx or xdm -nodaemon. Ever since I installed the latest version of XFree, the system something just rejects ioctl calls (TIOCGETD is unsupported on this device, on my console). Logging in and out solves the problem. I also suspect something in daily to do it, but everything seems okay there. Maybe it is cron itself? Whatever it has to do with XFree is also unclear to me, but these things just started happening when I installed 1.2 -Guido