From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 4 18:10:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12074 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 18:10:11 -0700 Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA12032 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 18:09:56 -0700 Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA17280; Thu, 5 Oct 95 02:10:26 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 02:10:26 +0100 Message-Id: <9510050110.AA17280@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (BrianAtkins) Cc: bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510042038.QAA14449@acmex.gatech.edu> (gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu) Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins writes: >> >> 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. I also have this problem sometimes, and it is related to the repeated use of the NumLock key. Since the mouse still works I can cut&paste to 'type' the command "xset r" in a xterm. This make the keyboard to work again. (now the command is in a menu of my window manager :-)) Jean-Marc _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================