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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:29:47 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: SMP + XDM = keyboard lockup 
Message-ID:  <199907230529.OAA05573@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 14:19:59 JST." <199907230520.OAA05070@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907230012350.13821-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> <199907230432.VAA21465@apollo.backplane.com> <199907230451.VAA52884@ix.netcom.com> <199907230520.OAA05070@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> 

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I wrote:

>Please describe the exact sequence and symptom.  How did you start X? 
>By xdm?  How did you "shutdown" the X sesssion?  When the keyboard is
>looked up, which vty are you in?  Do NumLock, CapsLock and ScrollLock
>change LED state?  If you try to switch to another vty by hitting
>ALT-Fx, do you here beep?  Would you hit ALT-Fx several times to see
>if it makes any difference?

One more thing.  If you have network connection, login to the system via
network, then run 'kbd_mode -a'.  (You may need to be root to do this.)
This command will bring the keyboard back to the translation mode and
might revive the keyboard in the situation you described.

Kazu


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