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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: kern/4454: X drops characters/locks up keyboard when run from `xdm' 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/4454; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: atrens@nortel.ca
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: kern/4454: X drops characters/locks up keyboard when run from `xdm' 
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 20:22:41 +0900

 >>Number:         4454
 >>Category:       kern
 >>Synopsis:       X drops characters/locks up keyboard when run from `xdm'
 [...]
 >>Release:        2.2.2 and 3.0-SNAP-Aug08 with Xfree86 3.3 and 3.3.1
 >>Environment:
 >3.0 August 08 SNAP. Also seen with 2.2.2. Tried with XFree86 3.3 and 
 >3.3.1.
 >>Description:
 >
 >Problems were seen on a ASUS-TX97 motherboard with 430TX chipset.
 >
 >Previously I was running on an ASUS T2P4 motherboard with a 430HX 
 >chipset and didn't seeany of these problems...
 
 Strange.
 
 >Running X11 from an `xdm'
 >When `xlock -inroot -mode galaxy' is running in the root window, or
 >some other graphics intensive stuff is running, xterms, rxvts, and
 >even the xdm login window drop characters and eventually lock up the
 >keyboard. When the keyboard is locked up, all the keyboard leds turn
 >off. Pressing caps-lock, or num-lock doesn't cause the corresponding
 >leds to illuminate. 
 
 Was it possible to switch to a text console by pressing Ctl-Alt-Fx?
 How about Ctl-Alt-Backspace? Did it kill the X server?
 
 >The mouse, disk and other things seem fine. I
 >can open new windows and cut and paste between them... just no keyboard
 >i/o :( .
 
 Do you use a serial mouse or a PS/2 mouse?
 
 >When I run X from a `startx' everything works perfectly.
 
 Hmm. Even more puzzling.
 
 Kazu