>In article <199606282257.PAA03614@cup.dsg.stanford.edu>,
>Jonathan Stone  <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>>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.

>I have noticed exactly the same phenomena on some 150Mhz Pentiums that
[...]
>to do woth typing rate since it's the fastest typers that is most
>often bit by this bug. I have somewhat removed the problem by
[...]

It sounds to me like you both have a getty running on the vt that
you're trying to use for the X server.

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