Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:38:40 -0400 (EDT) From: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) To: bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard locking up Message-ID: <199510042038.QAA14449@acmex.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <9510041946.AA07384@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU> from "bah6f@server.cs.virginia.edu" at Oct 4, 95 03:46:05 pm
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> > Pete Carah writes: > > I've seen the X lockup described above, and I can't fix that one. On > my computer, however, I've had the keyboard lock up in other > circumstances (like just typing normally in X) and the solution was > trivial (though annoying). I simply unplug the keyboard and plug it > back in. I don't know why this happens, nor do I know how to avoid > it. I just know that in this case, you can simply reset the keyboard > and go along happily. It seems to happen to me most often when I'm > pressing lots of control keys and stuff (i.e. in emacs). It rarely > happens when just typing straight text. > > I don't know if this will solve all the problems above, but it might > help one or two. ;) > that was something we tried, since we thought maybe his keyboard had died :-) But in this case it didn't fix it.
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