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From: ndd@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Ned D. Danieley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: problems with keyboard after server crash
Keywords: X11, crash
Message-ID: <13862@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 89 02:18:29 GMT
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I'm trying to debug an application which occasionally crashes,
taking the server with it. When this happens, the keyboard is
left in an unuseable state. I've tried kbd_mode -a: 

	1) by logging in from another machine

	2) by putting the following in my startup script:
		xinit ...
		kbd_mode -a
	
	3) by putting the following in my startup script:
		xinit ...; kbd_mode -a

None of these work: I have to reboot the machine to reset the
keyboard. (I've also tried the other options to kbd_mode; none
of them work, either.)

Has anyone seen this behaviour? How can I gracefully reset my
keyboard?

Sun 3/280 running SunOs 3.5
X11R3, patches 1-8, purdue 2.0 speedups, gcc 1.33

Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu)
Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory
Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC  27710
(919) 684-6807 or 684-6942