Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: locking up Message-ID: <199608122322.QAA04171@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <14324.839471898@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 7, 96 07:38:18 pm
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> > I have the same problem - I'm running 2.1.0R CD distribution, and at random > > times during an X session, the keyboard just freezes up. Executing 'kbd_mo > ' > > doesn't fix the problem either. Logging in remotely and killing the X serv > > clears up the difficulty though, or executing the above commandline. > > I never had this problem until I started using xmodmap with Xaccel to > swap the caps lock and control keys on my new Microsoft natural > keyboard (the Northgate I had before let me do this directly on the > keyboard with a switch). > > Now, every once in awhile (usually when I'm using the control key :-), > the keyboard will lock up. In the past I could clear it only by > restartarting the X server, now it appears that this same gdb trick > works for me in getting my keyboard back. I've made a button for it > in my fvwm menu. :-) > > Still, it'd be nice to know how/why this trick rescues the keyboard > for Xaccel. Anyone see this same kind of problem with XFree86? I get this a lot. It always happens when I'm pressing the CAPS LOCK key at the same time as some other key. I HATE IT because I end up having to kill about 30 vi sessions, etc., etc... This is on 2.1.0-R with XFree86 S3 server. By the way, after killing the X server, you can find the "lost" character typed (the one that caused the hang) on the virtual console you started X from (eg, at the login prompt)... -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie L. Cobbs, archie@whistle.com * Whistle Communications Corporation
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