Peter,

Two possiblities that I know of;

1. ServerNumLock. By uncommenting this in XF86config I have managed to
improve a similar situation - possibly caused by pre-X11R6
clients. Just prior to the keyboard lockup the numlock light would
toggle. This was discussed in comp.os.linux.x recently.

2. Is the console / ttyv0 login disabled?

Rex
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Rex McMaster                       rmcm@ariel.unimelb.edu.au     
                                  rmcm@paradiso.apana.org.au
Peter Simons writes:
 > Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz> writes:
 > 
 >  > XDM should be easy, just unpack and run "xdm".
 > 
 > On a curious side note: I have had problems with xdm after upgrading
 > to XFree 3.2. When I use xdm to open a display on the local terminal,
 > the keyboard locks up for no appearant reason after a couple of
 > minutes and there's no way to re-active it without logging out via
 > <ctrl>-<alt>-<bs>. The display for the X-Terminal works fine, though.
 > 
 > I have had this effect on two different i386-NetBSD 1.2 machines now
 > and found no solution. Did anyone experience something similar?
 > 
 > 	-peter
 > 
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