X11.3 for Sparcstation BW 17"

[Bob Sutterfield]

X-From: smiley!geof at uunet.uu.net (Geof Cooper)
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 7, message 8 of 9

|It dies with a large core file and a message that it couldn't
|contact the X server, and leaves the keyboard in key-transition
|mode, so the machine must be booted from an rlogin to be useable
|from the console again.

|Any ideas on how to unfreeze the keyboard when this happens?
|unplugging it and re-plugging it doesn't work, nor does entering
|the monitor briefly.

I'm not sure what you did wrong, but rather than rebooting, try saying
"kbd_mode -a".  This has been thoroughly cussed and discussed on
xpert/comp.windows.x

Also, rather than sweating a lot to solve this problem for X11R3, you
might as well get X11R4.  It may already be solved, but if not, at least
you won't have to re-integrate your work into the new (and better) R4
server.