Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)
On 9/14/07, Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I regularly see a similar problem on several boxen - and have for
> quite some time.
> * Mouse cursor moves, and can select windows (maximize/minimize)
> * Can not select items in a window (firefox/etc) with mouse
> * No keyboard response in any window
>
> All boxes are Sid - kept current daily. I first thought it might be
> hibernate/resume related - but when it started happening on my desktop
> I discounted that :)
>
> It may, however, be power related - I don't recall seeing the issue
> before I enabled conservative(amd_64 desktop) or on-demand(intel_64)
> power management.
>
> On the laptop, things are often fine until after a resume, I run ntpdate
> to correct the clock.
>
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE (killing the WindowMaker session) always gets me out
> of the problem, but it isn't fun.
I don't have any power management going on, and it seems like
the freeze is harder - ctrl-alt-backspace and C-A-D have no effect
at all, even after remotely killing SeaMonkey (no window selection,
either). And remotely killing X doesn't change any thing either.
Sometime the power button "soft off" (clean shutdown) works but
once only "hard off" worked.
I the past I have encountered freezes that could be solved by
C-A-BS or by remotely killing the process, but I have only had
this harder freeze since around the time etch went stable.
Cheers,
Kelly
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