Re: Keyboard freezing/repeating endlessly
A few details I omitted.
Once the freeze occurs, the only way I've found to release it is to
restart the machine. Restarting gdm3 (via a remote computer)
does not help, it brings up the login screen, but the keyboard
is not operational.
The problem also occurs in a virtual terminal (though I've
never been in a virtual terminal when it started).
To get to a virtual terminal with the keyboard dead/repeating,
I added a menu entry, accessible via the mouse,
that calls chvt, and modified the sudoers permission to allow
me to run that. In the virtual terminal I don't see the
key repeating, but the keyboard does nothing.
I normally run fvwm, but the problem also occurs in Gnome.
If there isn't a fix, are there any ideas on how to at least
clear the fault once it occurs (without restarting the machine)?
As mentioned, typing the key that is repeating does not help.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:01:16 -0800
Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> wrote:
> First post to Debian-Users; I hope this isn't inappropriate.
>
> In December I upgraded Ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04. The keyboard and mouse
> would then freeze after about five minutes of use. At that point I
> installed Debian 6 (another machine uses Debian, but this computer had
> come with Ubuntu 9.04 installed, so I used that for a year with no
> problems). Alas, the same thing happened with Debian 6.
>
> I have a PS/2 mouse and keyboard. I noticed that an added USB mouse
> would continue to operate, so replaced the mouse with that. The
> keyboard lockup continued, but decreased in frequency to about one a
> day. That is still unacceptable, but temporarily manageable.
>
> There are no indications of anything wrong in any of the logs.
> The O/S is fully functional; I can log into it from another machine
> and restart it that way.
>
> When the lockup occurs, most of the time the keyboard continually
> repeats a key, but not always the same key. I've seen the escape key,
> the "l", the "k", and others. Pressing the same key (to get the
> driver to see the "release" does not stop it). Other times it
> appears as though no key is repeating (at least nothing happens when
> the mouse is placed in a client).
>
> I've searched google and found quite a few descriptions of what
> appears similar behavior, with no solutions.
>
> Any suggestions on what I can do? Replace the PS/2 keyboard with a
> USB?
>
> Something I recently noticed is that
>
> $ setxkbmap -print
>
> indicates that X thinks I'm using a pc105 keyboard when in fact I have
> a pc104. I changed that, from the command line, with
>
> $ setxkbmap -model pc104
>
> That didn't improve anything (I still get lockups) nor did it change
> the keyboard operation, as far as I can tell. However, I'm wondering
> why X is using the wrong keyboard model. Maybe I entered the wrong
> model during the installation. What sets the default value (there is
> no xorg.conf file)?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
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Joe Riel
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