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- From: rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers)
- Subject: More on pccons/XFree86 problems (keyboard hangs)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.172900.451@ponds.uucp>
- Keywords: 386BSD X11 XFree86 console pccons
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:29:00 GMT
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- Well, after the response from my last posting relating the problems
- about overnight keyboard hangs w/Xfree86 - I've tried/done several things:
-
- 1) Acquired Holger's keycap-0.1.1
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- 2) Grabbed that enhanced pccons.c which was posted recently.
-
- 3) Acquired Julian's new scsi driver.
-
- Ok, so - I thought I would spend the weekend installing the new scsi
- driver, and try out both console drivers and see which worked best.
-
- Installing the SCSI driver wasn't too hard; (and runs *much* faster
- than the stock as drivers) - but when I went to try the enhanced
- pccons I got bitten by the 640K limit.
-
- So, since I couldn't build a kernel with everything I wanted _and_
- fit in 640 K without using the stock pccons.c, I decided to have a
- go and figure out what was causing the keyboard to lock up overnight.
-
- I looked in /etc/daily, and saw it just mostly moved files around,
- except for one thing; it sends a SIGHUP (1) to syslogd. Apparently,
- this is the culprit.
-
- Try it out yourself, inside of an X window, do a :
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- kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
-
- and your keyboard will lock up.
-
-
- For now, I've commented out the kill in /etc/daily, since I don't
- change the syslogd configuration file very often. But I would like
- to know if:
-
- 1) Does the enhanced pccons suffer from this?
-
- 2) Does Holger's codrvr (a.k.a. keycap-0.1.1) suffer from this?
-
- 3) Could someone detail the necessary steps for building a kernel
- and loading it about the 1meg line - and I could determine this for
- myself.
-
- (Note that the lock-up doesn't occur if your not running X.)
-
- I will probably try and examine the stock pccons.c to determine where
- the problem can be corrected... but if someone has an idea/fix, feel
- free to beat me to it...
-
- - Dave Rivers -
- (rivers@ponds.uucp (home))
- (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work))
-