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Date:      Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:49:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   New syscons + XFree 3.3.3.1 = problem?
Message-ID:  <199901171749.SAA08436@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Hi,

I'm using -current as of 1998-01-14 with the new syscons (with
separated keyboard driver) and XFree86 3.3.3.1 (XF86_SVGA on a
Matrox G200).  The keyboard and mouse are plain PS/2 models,
they work fine under syscons (i.e. not using XFree).
The kernel contains the following entries:

controller      atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty
device          atkbd0  at isa? tty irq 1
device          psm0    at isa? tty irq 12
device          vga0    at isa? port ? conflicts
pseudo-device   splash
device          sc0     at isa? tty
options         MAXCONS=10
options         SC_HISTORY_SIZE=500

XFree used to allocate the next free virtual terminal when
started (in this case the 11th), but that doesn't happen any-
more.  Instead, it uses the current one (i.e. if I'm on ttyv3
and start X, it uses ttyv3).  Is this intentional, or is it a
bug?

While the above isn't really a serious problem, the following
is:  When X has run for some time, the keyboard suddenly starts
being unresponsive and unusable.  This can happen after a few
minutes or after a few hours.  There are no error messages, no
syslog entries.  It looks like the keypresses don't get to
XFree anymore, but to the vty beneath.  Restarting X helps,
until it happens again.  Quite annoying.

Does anyone else experience the same problems?  Am I doing
something wrong?  What can I do to help tracking down the
problem?

Regards
   Oliver

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