Keyboard lock with USB mouse and XFree86

[Alex Satrapa]

On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 10:11 , Matthew Gibbins wrote:
>   By the way I'm beginning to think it might be something far more
>   subtle as I could not find any error messages in the log of the X
>   session. However, the IDE bus unceremoniously died and completely
>   futzed the entire system. Though it did manage to resurrect after a 
> short
>   respite.

What about dmesg?

If the IDE bus and the keyboard are playing up - perhaps you need to 
check that you've got the right options in the kernel to cater for buggy 
chip sets.  Or perhaps just save yourself a lot of heartache and get a 
new motherboard!

(and tell everyone what the dodgey one was, so we can avoid it in 
future ;)

Alex