Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 12:49:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Jon C. Smith" <jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980501123554.7946A-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu>
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I have a majorly annoying problem with X, well, a couple actually. I'm not certain where to post this question. Under version 3.3.1 (from 2.2.5-RELEASE) The keyboard was misbehaving. I've tried changing keyboards, motherboards, and eventually releases of X. I would be typing 'more' and get 'moer'. Now, I can do the same thing on any other computer, or on a virtual terminal and never have that problem. Furthermore, I would press the shift, control, or alt key, and they would 'stay pressed' though, again, no problem on a virtual terminal, nor was the key really stuck down. I would press 'return' and get a stray "'" (single quote). I would also get this by pressing the 'tab' key. Beyond this, were to hold down an arrow key, the cursor would move, stop throw in a number (ie '4') and resume. None of these happend at every keystorke, but enough to be annoying. This got worse the longer I was in X. Then, several times, the keyboard would complete;ly lock up, and I would have to unplug it (while the machine was on!) on plug it back in, resetting it. Ok, I was pretty miffed and frustrated (wouldn't you be ;) so I cut off /usr/X11R6, moving it to /usr/Xold. Then I installed (from scratch) X 3.3.2. Now I got the back quote much less frequent and the rest almost (if not) never. This worked pretty well for a week, until StarCalc3 went nuts. A window kept opening and closing until kwm (from KDE) crashed, dumping core, shutting down X, locking up the syscons, leaving me to salute the machine with three fingers (Control, Alt, Delete) to get it to work. THe machine booted fine, went into X, and I'm back to square one, save I think the arrow keys still work. This could drive someone back to Win95 with an Xclient. Help? Please? Any ideas? j. -- The Microsoft Soloution, "newfs && make reinstall" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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