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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:38:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins)
To:        bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Keyboard locking up
Message-ID:  <199510042038.QAA14449@acmex.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9510041946.AA07384@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU> from "bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu" at Oct 4, 95 03:46:05 pm

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> 
> Pete Carah writes:
> 
> I've seen the X lockup described above, and I can't fix that one.  On
> my computer, however, I've had the keyboard lock up in other
> circumstances (like just typing normally in X) and the solution was
> trivial (though annoying).  I simply unplug the keyboard and plug it
> back in.  I don't know why this happens, nor do I know how to avoid
> it.  I just know that in this case, you can simply reset the keyboard
> and go along happily.  It seems to happen to me most often when I'm
> pressing lots of control keys and stuff (i.e. in emacs).  It rarely
> happens when just typing straight text.
> 
> I don't know if this will solve all the problems above, but it might
> help one or two. ;)
> 

that was something we tried, since we thought maybe his keyboard had
died :-) But in this case it didn't fix it.



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