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Date:      Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:49:15 -0800
From:      "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicdms.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, <kar@giasmda.vsnl.net.in>
Subject:   Re: Keyboard freezes under 2.2.8.
Message-ID:  <19990122214917.27818.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com>

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On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 08:19:28PM -0530, K. Arun said:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:48:28PM -0800, Dave Walton said:
> 
>         It is ttyv3, and it does have `off' in the status column.  
>  
>  => If X is running on a tty that is enabled, the conflict will cause 
>  => exactly the problem you describe. (I learned that the hard way this
>  => morning...)
>         
>         What I do not understand is that the problem takes some time to
> surface. If it were a problem with the X server, one wouldn't expect it to
> start up properly, would one ? The freeze generally happens ten 
> minutes after starting up X. It is generally a consequence of a rapid
> mouse clicks or simultaneous use of the keyboard and mouse. Is this
> an X bug, one that has been reported ? 

Well, I don't know what one would expect, but I do know that what you 
describe is exactly what happens when X is using an enabled tty.  But 
that appears to not be the problem in your case, so I'm not sure what's 
going on.

Perhaps someone else here has any ideas?

Dave


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