Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:32:29 -0500 (CDT) From: steven wesley wilson <swwilso1@students.uiuc.edu> To: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: strange keyboard failure Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980804102001.18282A-100000@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980804104946.669V-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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Ok, here are the specs: Micron Millenium p200 64m ram, 2Gb hd, adaptec 2940 ultra pci scsi adapter, number nine 128 pci video card w/8mb ps2 mouse, keyboard smc 10bt ethernet card jax drive, 12x plextor scsi cdrom X server: XF86_I128 running afterstep 1.0 window manager Since the original posting I have tried upgrading to 2.2.7 with a fresh install off the net. The problem did not go away. Someone in the archives suggested that switching to the console with ctrl-alt-F1 and the alt-F3 back to X would be a temporary fix and that does work sometimes. However, eventually, the keyboard does not respond at all. I am getting an interesting message on the console. Actually, I can't document the message in detail now because of the keyboard. I can telnet to the machine. When I do a ps there is a login process with the following line: 414 v2 S<s+ 0:00.04 login -p \^]8;\^8];8\^\\^\ The error that I get on the console is a login process that is aborting abnormally. Could something be piping my keyboard to that login process. xdm is installed as suggested in the Lehey text with an entry in rc.local, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, and vt03 turned off in /etc/ttys. On a related note, with the 2.2.7 release I'ld like to know what happened to the xload utility. This program didn't install in my /usr/X11R6/bin directory and I'ld like to have it. Any suggestions? Thanks again for the help Steve Wilson On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Pat Lynch wrote: > a few things, I don;t have much to go on here, but a friend is > experiencing similar phenomena with his machine > > please supply us with 1) specs on your hardware > 2) particularly video card specs > 3) what XF86 server you are using. > > thanks -Pat > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net > Systems Administrator Rush Networking > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, steven wesley wilson wrote: > > > Thanks for all the suggestions from everyone regarding my questions about > > the celeron processor. > > > > > > I'm experiencing some strange behavior with my keyboard. After running X > > for about 10 minutes, my keyboard stops responding to input. I have to > > reboot the machine to get keyboard functionality back. I'm running FBSD > > 2.2.6, and afterstep as a window manager. Would someone suggest a fix for > > this behavior. > > > > TIA, > > > > Steve Wilson > > swwilso1@uiuc.edu > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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