From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 04:55:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22402 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 04:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22389 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 11:55:51 GMT (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA10178; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 04:55:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip216.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.216), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd010170; Sat Apr 18 04:55:48 1998 Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA19563; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 04:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 04:56:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804181156.EAA19563@foo.primenet.com> To: den@master.chem.yale.edu Subject: Re: X, Netscape, and keyboard freeze Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message