Subject: Re: XFree86 (3.3.6?) and keyboard jams
To: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/30/2000 18:16:56
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:19:56PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> I have installed NetBSD 1.4.2 (yes, just ahead of the 1.4.3 release)
> on a handful of diskless workstations (well, you know what I mean...)
> and the only hiccup is the perverse habit X has of repeating the
> last key pressed interminably if left to itself.  If I were to

> Additional indications: the problem applied to two different hosts,
> presumably (can one really tell without carefully inspecting the
> mother board?) with similar if not identical hardware (Celeron
> 433MHz, 64MB RAM, kinda recent no-name Intel-based boxes).  Also,

You checked to make sure it wasn't getty and X on the same terminal
fighting each other? 
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

Seen on bottom of IBM part number 1887724:
DO NOT EXPOSE MOUSE PAD TO DIRECT SUNLIGHT FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME.