Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: faried nawaz <nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keyboard/console problems? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960714214026.225F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <5599.837353398@waldrog.cs.uidaho.edu>
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On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, faried nawaz wrote: > Sometimes my keyboard ends up in a weird state: I can't switch console ttys; > no keyboard input is accepted (even under X with "secure keyboard turned on"); > and it appears that the control key is "stuck" (clicking on any window appears > as if i'd held down the control key before clicking). > > I got a lot of them last night and decided to switch to the july 3rd kernel. > I got "stuck" again within minutes of booting off the older kernel. My computer (in general under any OS) has a fried keyboard controller that will lock up the keyboard. I wonder if yours just developed one. Sometimes switching terminals from X will stick the Cntrl key, just hit it and it should unlock. This is 2.1-R. > One thing I forgot to mention was that I can "cure" this problem when under > X by just killing my Xsession and logging in again via xdm. I have to cold boot the machine :( Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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