weird keyboard lock in X
Brad Hards
bhards at bigpond.net.au
Sat Apr 6 18:42:46 EST 2002
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:18, Everard Edwards wrote:
> Every now and then (once every few days) my keyboard locks up in X,
> capslock lights etc won't even change. However, the computer is running
> fine I can logout of X using the mouse and WM menu, but obviously can't
> reboot from the command line (I don't use runlevel 5) as I don't get the
> keyboard back when exiting X, I can reboot it from the other machine on my
> home network though, but that is rather a pain. My guess is that some
> program is locking the keyboard then not releasing it when it closes (is
> that possible?), but there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it.
I had problems with X lockups (especially with apps from kdenetwork, which
seemed to trigger it every ten minutes or so). This was with the RH7.2
default X install. I fixed it with a (source) install of X 4.2.0
YMMV.
Brad
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