Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 04:56:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: den@master.chem.yale.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X, Netscape, and keyboard freeze Message-ID: <199804181156.EAA19563@foo.primenet.com> References: <v03130302b15ddbef4aaa@[130.132.186.177]>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >I'm experiencing a strange/frustrating and reproducible problem. :) >Basically, whenever I use X windows (FBSD 2.2.5-Release and the X >distribution that came with it) and I use Netscape (v. 4.05, but same >problem with 4.04) the keyboard freezes after a while. As far as I can tell >it becomes totally non-functional. I can't switch to any virtual terms, >even caps lock doesn't work. It simply accepts no input. The mouse works >fine...everything appears to work fine, except the keyboard. When I don't >have Netscape running, this does not occur...although I haven't tried many >other X applications. I did have xv and nedit open for a while (on a >seperate occasion) and was typing stuff, and nothing bad happened. I'm >using afterstep as the window manager, which is started with xdm. >The problem is easily recreated by just holding down a key in an xterm >window (with Netscape running)....after about four lines of text, the >keyboard freezes. >No errors appear to be logged (or maybe I just don't know where to look), >and the only way out of it is either a shutdown -r now (if I'm root, and I >execute it via a HotList item I added in afterstep) or a hard >reboot...which is of course Very Bad(tm). >Any help/advice would be really appreciated. I don't know what the root cause is, but I would recommend adding a HotList item to shut down X; I would expect that restarting X may fix it if it's a software problem. The other thing it may be, of course, is a hardware problem (either your keyboard port on the MB or your keyboard itself). I've heard that PS/2 keyboard ports are somewhat sensitive, so if you have one of those, I'd consider it a candidate. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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