Subject: Xserver loses all keboard input with 1.2-beta kernel?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/29/1996 10:02:50
You wrote (in your message from Fri 28)
 > 
 > I've set up a nameless P120 running NetBSD 1.2-Beta.  I've recently
 > stopped using the pcvt interface and started using X.  I find that
 > after a few minutes use, all keyboard events stop.  I've run xev on
 > another machine and verified that mouse events are being tracked, but
 > key up/down events seem to totally disappear.
 > 
It looks like the traditional problem of having both the X server and
a getty competing on the same VT to get characters. This can arise
if you have getty running on all your VTs. To run X, you should leave
VT without getty on them. (switch them off in /etc/ttys).


					Matthieu