Re: [SLE] Keyboard lock

From: Brett Russ (icycle_at_charter.net)
Date: 02/17/04

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    Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:17:04 -0500
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    mauro wrote:
    > - keyboard locks and no keys are sent to applications from
    > keyboard. Mouse still works ...
    >
    > So my question is:
    > Can I do anything to save/continue my session, or to begin understanding
    > what went bad ?

    I have a system which does this as well. A couple things you can try:

    -press num lock a couple times. Does the light toggle? If not, your
    keyboard interrupts are not getting processed. Two causes could be the
    kernel is hung and not receiving ints or the HW keyboard controller is
    failing.

    -To see if it's HW, unplug and replug your KB. Then try the num lock
    test again. If it works, try typing in a shell.

    With my system, plug cycling fixes it for a while. I think the HW is
    failing.

    I also had another system which did this and I honestly don't know why.
      The mouse still worked indicating that the ints were getting processed
    but the KB would not light the num lock key even after plug cycling.

    BR 

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