garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) (01/11/90)
on a sun4 (server compiled with cc) when the server is killed it leaves the console in a state such that it appears that it interprets every character typed (in response to hte login prompt) as a carriage return. How can we get our console back?? Gary Faulkner National Center for Supercomputing Applications - University of Illinois Internet: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu Disclaimer: I've only stated my opinion, not anyone elses.
gary@CTC.CONTEL.COM (Gary Bisaga x4219) (01/12/90)
Use 'kbd_mode -a' command. Keyboard is set up to return internal key codes (similar to the IBM PC's scan codes) so that X can pick up, for example, shift keys separately (both presses and releases). Gary Bisaga (Gary@ctc.contel.com)
ggreen@cod.NOSC.MIL (George W. Green) (01/12/90)
In article <1990Jan11.154942.11853@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Gary Faulkner) writes: >on a sun4 (server compiled with cc) when the server is killed it leaves >the console in a state such that >it appears that it interprets every character typed (in response to hte >login prompt) as a carriage >return. How can we get our console back?? > >Gary Faulkner I've had something similar happen with R3 on both Sun 3/60 and 4/110 when the server crashes. The keyboard is left in a state where each keypress is interpreted as gibberish. Is there a way to restore the console without rebooting? George Green, (ggreen@nosc.mil)
sheldon@webster.sybase.com (01/13/90)
I ran into that problem as well. If you are running Sunview, you can
put kbd_mode into your root menu by adding a line to your '.rootmenu' file:
"Kbd_mode" /usr/local/bin/kbd_mode -e
Then when it crashes, you can invoke kbd_mode without using the keyboard.
-sheldon white- :-{)
sun!sybase!sheldon