From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 8 18:47:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19495 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:47:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snark.wizard.com (snark.wizard.com [199.171.28.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19490 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:47:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ernst@snark.wizard.com) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by snark.wizard.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA09165; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:47:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:47:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Richard B. Ernst" To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: Gregory Bond , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another keyboard freeze In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've seen the same thing happen waaay back in 2.2.5 when I was just playing around with X. I haven't used it since then, but perhaps knowing there is a history will help. I had the exact symptoms. Keyboard "beep" when trying to Alt-Fn, and no keyboard control after shutting down X (Ctl-Alt-Bks?). I was able to telnet in, su and reboot instead of a Ctrl-Alt-Del, though. On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: :>On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Gregory Bond wrote: :> :>>Then something broke. Ctl-Alt-Fn stopped working (it beeped). Everything was :>>working fine inside X, but I couldn't get out of it. Eventually, I killed the :>>xdm and dropped back to vt0. At that point I was stuffed: "ordinary" keys :>>produced no effect at all, and any of the Alt-Fn keys just produced a beep. :>>Only way out was the three-finger salute. :> :>I don't know if "me toos" are appropriate on -current. I have observed :>this same behavior. It seems to occur when I switch between x and the :>console quickly. :> :>Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering :>Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ :> :> :>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :>with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message :> +--[ Richard B. Ernst ]--[ Las Vegas, NV ]--[ telnet://legendz.com 1234 ]--+ | "At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will | | find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the | | computer." {Unknown} | +---[ http://www.wizard.com/~rbernst ]----------[ rbernst@wizard.com ]-----+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message