Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 00:55:14 -0400 From: Dennis Ostrovsky <den@master.chem.yale.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: X, Netscape, and keyboard freeze Message-ID: <v03130302b15ddbef4aaa@[130.132.186.177]>
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I'm experiencing a strange/frustrating and reproducible problem. :) Basically, whenever I use X windows (FBSD 2.2.5-Release and the X distribution that came with it) and I use Netscape (v. 4.05, but same problem with 4.04) the keyboard freezes after a while. As far as I can tell it becomes totally non-functional. I can't switch to any virtual terms, even caps lock doesn't work. It simply accepts no input. The mouse works fine...everything appears to work fine, except the keyboard. When I don't have Netscape running, this does not occur...although I haven't tried many other X applications. I did have xv and nedit open for a while (on a seperate occasion) and was typing stuff, and nothing bad happened. I'm using afterstep as the window manager, which is started with xdm. The problem is easily recreated by just holding down a key in an xterm window (with Netscape running)....after about four lines of text, the keyboard freezes. No errors appear to be logged (or maybe I just don't know where to look), and the only way out of it is either a shutdown -r now (if I'm root, and I execute it via a HotList item I added in afterstep) or a hard reboot...which is of course Very Bad(tm). Any help/advice would be really appreciated. Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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