[ale] Keyboard lockups

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Oct 3 10:19:46 EDT 2004


David Corbin wrote:
> On Friday 01 October 2004 03:00 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
>>Keep an ssh session open from another system into your box. When the
>>keyboard locks up, grab the other system and start killing off the
>>latest app your were using and testing to see if that app was the one
>>that killed the keyboard.
>>
>>I have hit this problem before in Gnome. (I don't use KDE but I'm sure
>>it can happen there as well) Basically an app with too much privilege
>>overwrites the keyboard listener then it hangs as it no longer gets
>>input. There was a big gnome clean up that happened around v1.6 that
>>resolved most of these issues. I have not tested the new 1.8 (yet).
>>
> 
> 
> Any reason I couldn't establish the ssh session once the problem occurs?

Once the problem occurs, can you toggle any of the keyboard leds?  caps 
lock, num lock...

Trying to figure out if the whole keyboard is locked up.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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