From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 18 01:41:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA06982 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 01:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA06965 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 01:41:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minnow.render.com (minnow.render.com [193.195.178.1]) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA22003; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:41:14 +0100 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 09:41:14 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Nate Williams cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Brian N. Handy" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-961006-SNAP keyboard lockup In-Reply-To: <199610171704.LAA18599@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > I do occasionally have keyboard lockups too, but only under X. > > > > > 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 > > Make sure this process is run as 'root' or it won't work. (I know only > too well about that problem, and I know have a suid program which does > the above I can call from a menu.) > > > 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 don't use xmodmap at all on my box and I see it *all* the time, at > least once/week. (I switched the CL and DEL keys with a new keymap in > syscons). However, if Jordan is still using his M$ Natural keyboard > then we have something in common. I had this problem and I 'fixed' it by changing from syscons to pcvt. I am *not* using one of those miserable M$ keyboards (we have stacks of them here and I hate them). -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 FAX: +44 171 734 6426