Subject: Re: keyboard lockup
To: Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/1996 18:28:51
Carl Harris writes:
> I've been experiencing a quite annoying problem with XFree86 3.12 
> NetBSD 1.1.  Occasionally, the keyboard gets wedged.  The mouse is 
> still functional, so that I can select an "exit" function from a window 
> manager menu.  When the xdm login screen returns, usually (but not always) 
> the keyboard reawakens.  In case it matters, I'm using the pc3 console 
> driver.

I get this too. Restarting the window manager (fvwm in my case) always
fixes it immediately. I don't think its operating system related -- I
think its probably an X or window manager bug.

Perry