On 16-Jul-99, Matthew Orgass wrote:
> 
>  Occasionally wscons seems to lock into a strange mode where it
> interprets every character as a control character.  This happened more
> often with 1.4_ALPHA, but still happens occasionally under 1.4.  Since I'm
> not connected to any other local machine, the only thing I can tell to do
> is power off and restart.  I don't think this is a hardware problem since
> a) I've never had it happen under Win95 (though I don't use that too much
> :) ) and b) I also had it happen a few times on my desktop during
> 1.4_ALPHA (though that is also an old IBM PS/2 keyboard).  
> 
>  Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes. It appears to happen at random.

>  Is there anything I can do about it?

I've found that switching VT's to X then back fixes it.

-- 
Douglas