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.

I have something similar, but not the same, on i386 with pcvt: on starting X
(with xdm) the keyboard locks up. Unplugging and replugging once revives it.
However, there is another mode of failure: just pressing caps lock will change
the Num/Caps/Scroll lights from shimmering to all off. Again unplugging and
replugging the keyboard once brings it back to life. My solution: use pccons,
though the real solution nowadays is probably: use wscons.

Cheers,

Patrick

PS: this only happened on 2 very new computers...