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From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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Subject: Re: 2.2-961006-SNAP keyboard lockup
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>>>>> Jordan K Hubbard writes:

 >> I do occasionally have keyboard lockups too, but only under X.  I'm not
 >> sure that mine is a FreeBSD problem however -- I'm running Xaccel.  If I
 >> log out my session (The mouse still works) and log back in, I find that I
 >> have control of the keyboard again.  (I run 960801-SNAP.)

 > When it locks up, is it possible to run this from a mouse menu button
 > or something and see if it fixes it?

 > echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem >/dev/null 2>&1

 > I have the same problem, but it only happens when I xmodmap the
 > keyboard to swap my capslock and DEL keys.  Before I did this (the
 > result of switching keyboards to one which didn't do it in hardware),
 > I never had a problem at all.

I also have this problem, and it is always caused by hitting the
NumLock key (it is remapped to KP_F1). This occurs more frequently
when the disk activity is high. 
'xset r' always solve the problem.


 > 						Jordan

Jean-Marc
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