From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 03:48:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA04514 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:48:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk (hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk [147.143.102.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA04494 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 03:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from andypc3.sees.bangor.ac.uk by hermes.sees.bangor.ac.uk; Wed, 26 Mar 97 11:47:31 GMT Received: by andypc3.sees.bangor.ac.uk (8.7.5) id LAA09766; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:47:29 GMT Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:47:29 GMT Message-Id: <199703261147.LAA09766@andypc3.sees.bangor.ac.uk> From: Dr A W G Duller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: andy@sees.bangor.ac.uk Subject: Keyboard problems with XFree 3.2 (FreeBSD 2.2) Reply-To: andy@sees.bangor.ac.uk Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have just installed Release 2.2 (X user distribution) from one of the British mirror sites and everything is fine until I start to use X. When I startup X the window manager (fvwm) and various xterms appear correctly and the mouse works. However, the keyboard doesn't work. If I disconnect and then connect the keyboard it begins to work - although even then if I press keys such as Caps lock, Scroll local, Num lock then it stops working again. In addition switching to a virtual terminal from X (e.g. ctrl-alt-F2) also stops the keyboard working and the disconnect mechanism has to be used again. I am using an AJP 7500 notebook computer (486) and a docking station which then has the keyboard plugged into the docking station. I get slightly different behaviour when I use the notebook keyboard i.e. the keyboard functions all of the time but there are still problems with the Caps lock etc. but they are not as severe since after a number of keypresses the keyboard functions normally. In all cases the lights indicating which "lock" is pressed do not light. When X is not being using the keyboard functions correctly in all cases. I have tried with and without the xkb support but the problem seems to be the same. I have been using previous versions of FreeBSD on this machine for several years without problem. Any suggestions as to the solution would be gratefully received. Please could you reply directly as I don't subscribe to the list. Thanks, Andy Duller -- Andy Duller, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Systems, University of Wales, Bangor, Dean St., Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 1UT U.K. Tel: +44 1248 382716 Fax: +44 1248 361429 E-mail: andy@sees.bangor.ac.uk