On Aug 11,  2:38pm, Calum Mackay wrote:
> Subject: Keyboard Crashes
> For some reason, when running X, and I'm quite happily typing away the
> keyboard suddenyl locks up, will not respond to keypresses and I have
> to shutdown back to the X login to get some key reaction, but
> sometimes this does not even work and a full server reboot has to be
> done
>

Did you start xdm with the `-nodaemon' flag?

>From my /etc/rc.local:

if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ]; then
        echo 'starting xdm ...'
        /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon
fi

Regards, Lex

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