On Aug 11, Calum Mackay wrote
> For some reason, when running X, and I'm quite happily typing away the 
> keyboard suddenyl locks up, will not respond to keypresses and I have 
> to shutdown back to the X login to get some key reaction, but 
> sometimes this does not even work and a full server reboot has to be 
> done

Your're using xdm, rigth ? Did you disable getty on console/ttyv0 in
/etc/ttys ?

> 
> I've tried running xf86config and turning off the XKB settings but 
> this hasn't helped. Could this be anything to do with the mouse? I'm 
> running a serial driver connected to /dev/tty00, but as my machine is 
> a Compaq and comes ready with a PS/2 mouse, could this cause a 
> problem? and where do i get a PS/2 driver from?
> 

This should'nt be a problem. I have these kind of config too.
When the keyboard looks up, did you try to unplug-replug it ?


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