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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:39:38 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Yingjun He <hey@tuns.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Keyboard Locked
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121142646.5192L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980118140809.0095add0@newton.ccs.tuns.ca>

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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Yingjun He wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running FreeBSD2.15. When I use X-window for a while(a few days), my
> keyboard is
> locked. I can open a new xterm or other x-applications using mouse but I
> cannot type
> anything. I lost my keyboard function. All I can do is to exit X-window and
> restart
> it. This is really anoying because my processes are killed. Can you tell me
> how can
> I fix this problem? 

Buy a new keyboard?  My old P90 did this and I think I traced it to the
keyboard controller on the motherboard.

Also check that numlock is off -- numlock does crazy things to X.

> Also how can I set limit in this version of FreeBSD. I tried
> /etc/login.conf, it seems not working. 

Did you rebuild the database? 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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