Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:47:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Richard B. Ernst" <ernst@wizard.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another keyboard freeze Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9812081845360.8877-100000@snark.wizard.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812081802220.20860-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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I've seen the same thing happen waaay back in 2.2.5 when I was just playing around with X. I haven't used it since then, but perhaps knowing there is a history will help. I had the exact symptoms. Keyboard "beep" when trying to Alt-Fn, and no keyboard control after shutting down X (Ctl-Alt-Bks?). I was able to telnet in, su and reboot instead of a Ctrl-Alt-Del, though. On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: :>On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Gregory Bond wrote: :> :>>Then something broke. Ctl-Alt-Fn stopped working (it beeped). Everything was :>>working fine inside X, but I couldn't get out of it. Eventually, I killed the :>>xdm and dropped back to vt0. At that point I was stuffed: "ordinary" keys :>>produced no effect at all, and any of the Alt-Fn keys just produced a beep. :>>Only way out was the three-finger salute. :> :>I don't know if "me toos" are appropriate on -current. I have observed :>this same behavior. It seems to occur when I switch between x and the :>console quickly. :> :>Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering :>Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ :> :> :>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :>with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message :> +--[ Richard B. Ernst ]--[ Las Vegas, NV ]--[ telnet://legendz.com 1234 ]--+ | "At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will | | find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the | | computer." {Unknown} | +---[ http://www.wizard.com/~rbernst ]----------[ rbernst@wizard.com ]-----+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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