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- From: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: More on pccons/XFree86 problems (keyboard hangs)
- Date: 14 Dec 92 14:41:31 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 40
- Message-ID: <veit.724344091@du9ds3>
- References: <1992Dec13.172900.451@ponds.uucp> <1992Dec14.115444.12691@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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- Keywords: 386BSD X11 XFree86 console pccons
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- In <1992Dec14.115444.12691@news.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec13.172900.451@ponds.uucp> rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) writes:
- >> Try it out yourself, inside of an X window, do a :
- >>
- >> kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`
- >>
- >> and your keyboard will lock up.
- >>
- >>
- >>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...
- >>
- [...correct explanation of the problem follows...]
-
- In this moment, I have no access to my 386bsd system, but if the problem
- occurs with codrv, there will be a fast fix for the current version.
- However, I doubt, that the problem will occur exactly as described, because
- codrv in X-Windows mode does not access the /dev/console device, like the
- original pccons did, but an independent /dev/kbd, which cannot be locked
- by closing. The effect of killing may influence the behavior of the shell
- that started xinit, but there are some modifications in codrv which regenerate
- the console attribute (TIOCCONS settable) and thus should not hang a
- process on /dev/console. Anyway, I'll check it.
-
- >I don't know if any of the replacement pccons (or codrv) drivers fix this.
-
-
- > Christoph
- >--
- >.signature: Connection timed out
-
- Holger
-
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