Subject: Re: keyboard deadlock under X
To: Dante Profeta <dante@mbox.vol.it>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/27/1996 13:52:20
dante@mbox.vol.it (Dante Profeta) writes:

> 
> I'm not sure this is a bug of Xfree86 (in which case I report it to
> xfree86.org), but it's sure it is an annoing bug:
> 
> I'm running the percompiled netbsd1.1 kernel with the X support.
> 
> Sometimes (often), appear that the keyboard goes in deadlock.
> The keyboard itself dosen't seem to hung because the Lock LEDs still works,
> but X dosen't receive any input from the keyboard.
> All I can do is a hard-reboot. Very bad!

Sounds like you have a getty running on the console, competing with
the X server for input.