Subject: Re: port-i386/7448: X11 w/ wscons sporadic keyboard hangs and
To: Duncan McEwan <duncan@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/02/1999 23:37:29
At 03:54 PM 5/3/99 +1200, Duncan McEwan wrote:
>> I've now experienced for 3 times that after arbitrary time while using
>> X11 the keyboard hang.  Mouse events and everything else kept working,
>> un- and replugging the keyboard or restarting the X server put the
>> keyboard back into operation.  I'm using the wscons console driver
>> (exact configuration see below).  Getty isn't waiting on the virtual
>> tty I run X on.

In the olden days, we say this when there was a 'getty' running on the
console and 'xdm' was being used to manage the console.  Could that be it?

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