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From: jrd@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X ignores my keyboard
Keywords: X11R4, Sparcstation 1, keyboard, Sunview, twm
Message-ID: <2638@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 11 Jun 90 02:52:17 GMT
Reply-To: jrd@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Jim Davis)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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I have a problem, perhaps someone out there can help.  I run X11r4 on
my Sparcstation 1.  A few days ago, it broke, such that X ignores all
keyboard input.  The mouse works fine, and I can focus on a window
just as always.  I can also input text by clicking on it, as usual.
It's as if I had no keyboard.  Of course, the keyboard works fine when
I'm using the Sparc as a plain old terminal.  It only dies when I use
the X server.  X clients on my machine work fine when invoked from
other servers.

You will no doubt ask "What were you doing when it broke?"  and the
sad truth is, I don't remember.  I was *not* writing X code.  I am not
an X hacker, I just want to use it for running e.g. emacs and xterm
and such.  And I have tried rebooting and power-cycling the machine.

Clues that may be helpful: I ran xev, and it does not see any keyboard
activity, either.  This failure occurs with both twm and uwm, and also
on Sunview (when I type any character I get an error message
ws_read_indev length error 1).  I have no idea what the sunview error
message means.

I would be grateful for advice on how to debug or fix this.  Please
reply by email, to jrd@media-lab.media.mit.edu.  Thanks.

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