Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 19:38:18 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: locking up Message-ID: <14324.839471898@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Aug 1996 12:29:55 CDT." <199608071729.MAA00250@right.PCS>
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> > echo "set ipending=2" | gdb -k -w /kernel /dev/mem > > I have the same problem - I'm running 2.1.0R CD distribution, and at random > times during an X session, the keyboard just freezes up. Executing 'kbd_mode ' > doesn't fix the problem either. Logging in remotely and killing the X server > clears up the difficulty though, or executing the above commandline. I never had this problem until I started using xmodmap with Xaccel to swap the caps lock and control keys on my new Microsoft natural keyboard (the Northgate I had before let me do this directly on the keyboard with a switch). Now, every once in awhile (usually when I'm using the control key :-), the keyboard will lock up. In the past I could clear it only by restartarting the X server, now it appears that this same gdb trick works for me in getting my keyboard back. I've made a button for it in my fvwm menu. :-) Still, it'd be nice to know how/why this trick rescues the keyboard for Xaccel. Anyone see this same kind of problem with XFree86? Jordan
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