Re: Keyboard problem
When you telnet in, just stop and restart xdm if you are
running xdm. Any other lock-up can usually be resolved
by killing the process of the program you were in when
locking up.
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm having an intermittant but recurring problem with the keyboard of my
> computer. Every so often (maybe about 5 or 6 times a day), when I begin
> typing, the first keystroke that seems to be received is the ` key.
> Also, about every 30 days or so (although its done it twice today) the
> keyboards locks up completely. Nothing I type on the keyboard seems to be
> received by the computer. I can telnet in from another machine and
> everything else about it seems to be running fine. If I reboot the
> machine, then the lockup problem does not recur for a long (usually) time,
> like days or weeks. I can't imagine that this is a hardware problem as
> it clears up after a reboot.
>
> This problem occurs when I'm running X. I don't really know if it would
> occur in a console window as I never run that way. The pertinenet
> keyboard settings from my XF86Config are:
>
> Section "Keyboard"
> Protocol "Standard"
> XkbRules "xfree86"
> XkbModel "pc101"
> XkbLayout "us"
> XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
> EndSection
>
>
> I'm running Debian 2.0 (although this problem also occurred with 1.3).
> Its a Dell Optiplex GXa, 300 MHz PII, etc. that was purchased around
> February 1998. I've only got Debian installed on this machine, no other
> OSs. It is my work computer and normally is left on all the time (except
> for keyboard lockup reboots!).
>
> Has anyone ever experienced anything this? Any clues as to how to
> troubleshoot this?
>
> Thanks...
>
>
>
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