[ale] Keyboard lockups

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 03 October 2004 09:43, Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > Well, disabling the APIC option has made my system much happier.  Now,
> > twice in a day, I've had this problem where the keyboard simply stopped
> > functioning.  Both times, I was in X, and both times, I was just about to
> > send an IM in Gaim (so it might be a GAIM-related problem).
> >
> > Rebooting corrected it.  Next time, I'll take smaller steps -- kill GAIM,
> > if I can, restart X,  Try typing in a virtual console.  But, in the mean
> > time, any other suggestions?
>
> I assume the mouse still works?  I've had times where I would select a
> browser window, try to type in a text box and I'd get nothing.  If I
> selected a different window then reselect the browser window the problem
> went away.

The mouse works.  They keyboard is dead in ALL windows.

>
> Also, try switching to a virtual as you've noted, then switching back.
> Try to determine if it's X related or app related.  Do that by trying
> other things on the keyboard, like meta keys to move a window or some
> such.  These vary from one wm to another, so I can't make any specific
> suggestions.

I will, when it next occurrs...