On Fri, 7 May 1999, Bob Lantz wrote:

> On Fri, 7 May 1999, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> 
> >   This could also be caused if the tty devices for the keyboard/mouse are
> > present in ttys.  I seem to recall that the serial settings get changed
> > when the system reboots.
> 
> This is interesting. Right now it looks like the mouse and keyboard lines
> are commented out in /etc/ttys, but maybe something bad like that is going
> on. Right now all the gettys are switched off anyway, so it shouldn't
> make any difference, should it?? Anyway, maybe I will try commenting out
> those other lines in case the serial devices are somehow interfering with
> the keyboard and mouse. I am definitely seeing the jumping cursor problem
> when you press a button!! Ugh,

Commented out is enough. The problem was that even though the mouse & kbd
were disabled, ttyflags would try to set their properties. That open would
reset the baud rates to 9600. :-(

Commented out, ttyflags leaves them alone.

Take care,

Bill