Re: Keyboard locked up under X [was System trashed]
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:05:36AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that
> completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine,
> mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even
> cut and paste some text into an xterm works.
>
> But the keyboard appears like it's plugged off.
>
> This happens:
>
> Either at startup time:
> xdm is started at boottime, and gives you the login screen. Keyboard still
> works here, so login with username and password. Then your Xsession starts
> an BOOOOM, keyboard is off. No Ctrl-Alt-F1, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nothing.
>
> Or when changin runlevels:
> Just say init 4 (where 4 is just another runlevel, that differs only
> say in a single getty entry completely unrelated to X. Same effect as
> above. If you happen to have the characters s, h, u, t, d, o, w, n, ' '
> '-', 'r' available somewhere, you may reboot cleanly by cut and paste
> them into an xterm.
>
> (Card is an Elsa Winner 1000 (PCI, 2MB) if that matters)
>
> Nils
>
> --
> Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
> To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
FWIW, I've had the same thing happen with my i740 XBF server and
kde several times. That was One of the reasons I stopped using KDE.
--
Stephen Pitts
smpitts@midsouth.rr.com
webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
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