From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 4 07:50:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15037 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 07:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.160.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA15025 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 07:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA02702; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:50:44 +0200 From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199609041450.QAA02702@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD resetting itself In-Reply-To: from david de jong at "4. Sep. 96 13:16:55" To: dd026@seqeb.gov.au Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 16:50:43 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > I am running FreeBSD release 2.1.5 on a Pentium 100Mhz. I start X on > boot and normally operate in this mode. I have noticed that if I have > run an X intensive process such as netscape or xv and then switch to > one of the text terminal ( with F1 for example ) the character > mapping of the keyboard is corrupted. If the delete key is hit at this > point FreeBSD will reboot. If however I go back to the X screen and then > back to the text terminal the character map returns to normal ( this does > not always happen ). Typing ^d at the login prompt ( I presume that this > restarts getty ) will also correct the problem. > > Have you come across this problem as yet? Is there a problem with my > setup? Can you offer a solution to this problem? I think it's a problem with the X-Server, since I have seen that on various platforms running XFree86-x.xx. To switch terminals you normally use . The state of these keys gets sometimes somehow saved, when switching to text mode. Just press once again or in text mode and you should type again 'normal' characters. (On my keyboard it's the problem with left and right keys. To switch terminals I have to use the left one, but sometimes ...) Greetings, Robert -- Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<<