On Dec 1, Zach Fine wrote
> 
> I have the same problem. Whenever I start X (always by means of xdm),
> my keyboard locks up. If I repeatedly unplug and replug the keyboard,
> eventually (takes from 2 to 20 iterations) I'll hear the disk churn
> for a fragment of a second and then I'll be able to type again.
> 
> I figure since there's disk activity of some kind when typing ability
> is restored, it might be some sort of race condition between XFree86's
> keyboard driver and NetBSD's, but I've had no luck nor spent much
> effort trying to track it down.
> 

Are you sure you don't have another process competing for keyboard access (
a backgroup process, or a getty) ? I start X either via xdm (from /etc/rc, 
with getty disabled in /etc/ttys) or startx and never experienced this
problem. And I have different models of machines ...

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