On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Carl Harris wrote:

> 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.

This is most often because the console login hasn't been disabled in 
/etc/ttys; XFree86 and getty can't share the console.  You can either 
make this change or use pcvt ("vt0" in the kernel config files).

--scott