Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 02:10:26 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (BrianAtkins) Cc: bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up Message-ID: <9510050110.AA17280@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199510042038.QAA14449@acmex.gatech.edu> (gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu)
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>>>>> Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins writes:
>>
>> 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.
I also have this problem sometimes, and it is related to the repeated
use of the NumLock key. Since the mouse still works I can cut&paste to
'type' the command "xset r" in a xterm. This make the keyboard to
work again. (now the command is in a menu of my window manager :-))
Jean-Marc
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