From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 13:38:58 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA02471 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:38:58 -0700 Received: from anvil.gatech.edu (root@anvil.gatech.edu [130.207.165.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA02465 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:38:50 -0700 Received: from acmex.gatech.edu (gt4722a@acmex.gatech.edu [130.207.165.22]) by anvil.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA12527; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:38:42 -0400 From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) Received: (gt4722a@localhost) by acmex.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA14449; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:38:40 -0400 Message-Id: <199510042038.QAA14449@acmex.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up To: bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9510041946.AA07384@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU> from "bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu" at Oct 4, 95 03:46:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 840 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Pete Carah writes: > > I've seen the X lockup described above, and I can't fix that one. On > my computer, however, I've had the keyboard lock up in other > circumstances (like just typing normally in X) and the solution was > trivial (though annoying). I simply unplug the keyboard and plug it > back in. I don't know why this happens, nor do I know how to avoid > it. I just know that in this case, you can simply reset the keyboard > and go along happily. It seems to happen to me most often when I'm > pressing lots of control keys and stuff (i.e. in emacs). It rarely > happens when just typing straight text. > > I don't know if this will solve all the problems above, but it might > help one or two. ;) > that was something we tried, since we thought maybe his keyboard had died :-) But in this case it didn't fix it.