Re: 9.1: keyboard input partially broken

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:50:35 -0400 (EDT)
Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:

> I've installed 9.1 on a machine at work.  The goal is to run a turnkey
> product which among other things uses X for displaying output and, to
> some extent, taking input (specifically, keyboard events).
> 
> This worked under 5.2 and 8.0.  But, under 9.1, I find that keyboard
> input is *almost* completely nonworking, under certain circumstances.
> 
> It's not just the application, either; if I start X with nothing but
> the server and an xterm, input into the xterm is similarly broken,
> under those circumstances.

I've seen behaviour like this if /etc/ttys is misconfigured.
Like, say, if getty is enabled on both /dev/constty and /dev/ttyE0.