I'm having an intermittant but recurring problem with the keyboard of my computer. Every so often (maybe about 5 or 6 times a day), when I begin typing, the first keystroke that seems to be received is the ` key. Also, about every 30 days or so (although its done it twice today) the keyboards locks up completely. Nothing I type on the keyboard seems to be received by the computer. I can telnet in from another machine and everything else about it seems to be running fine. If I reboot the machine, then the lockup problem does not recur for a long (usually) time, like days or weeks. I can't imagine that this is a hardware problem as it clears up after a reboot.
This problem occurs when I'm running X. I don't really know if it would occur in a console window as I never run that way. The pertinenet keyboard settings from my XF86Config are: Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" XkbRules "xfree86" XkbModel "pc101" XkbLayout "us" XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps" EndSection I'm running Debian 2.0 (although this problem also occurred with 1.3). Its a Dell Optiplex GXa, 300 MHz PII, etc. that was purchased around February 1998. I've only got Debian installed on this machine, no other OSs. It is my work computer and normally is left on all the time (except for keyboard lockup reboots!). Has anyone ever experienced anything this? Any clues as to how to troubleshoot this? Thanks...
