Re: [ROOT] keyboard trouble

From: Robert Feuerbach (feuerbac@jlab.org)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 16:45:05 MET


You wrote:
> Daan reported:
> > I don't know if this is related to ROOT 3.10.02, but sometimes my cursor
> > stays on the same place even when I keep on pressing a button on the
> > keyboard. I have not seen this when I was using ROOT 3.05.05.
>
> I also suffer the same trouble.
> The key repeat doesn't work at all the terminal even if I quit the ROOT.
> "stty sane" doesn't work at all.
> The situation is recovered after re-login(logout then login).

I have had similar experiences upon abnormally exitting root, and
often have to use the "reset" command to get the terminal back to
normal (executes tset with sane parameters, and is part of the
ncurses package).

Good luck,
Rob Feuerbach

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