One thing to do in this case is to telnet in from the other machine,
become root and run a command like:
# switchto 2
which should switch you to VC #2. Hopefully that will give you a live
keyboard.
If the keyboard was working but the output missing (I've found running
some games can do this), then you could type (blindly) in the
switchto(1) command at the console. Setting up restoretextmode(1) (say
via a short alias) can be useful too.
It may also be possible to start up xdm (or even startx) from the
remote login (perhaps open(1) is required can't recall...). There is
some chance when the X server restarts it resets the keyboard and mouse.
Karl
BTW: I assume at the frozen keyboard you have already tried things
like "Ctrl-Alt-F2" or "Alt-F2" to try to shift over to, say, VC #2,
on the off chance it is stuck in VC #7 (the VC X typically uses).
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:27:55PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I have an intermittent behavior regarding my keyboard and I was hoping
> someone here might have a clue what's going on here:
>
> Every so often, I decide to exit X just for the purpose of restarting it
> (X). The server can get pretty large after a while. Sometimes, not
> everytime, I'll exit out of X and my keyboard will be dead. The lights
> will not respond or anything else on the keyboard. Also the mouse is dead.
> If I go to another machine and telnet over, I can reboot it. But I'm
> getting pretty damn tired of this. I'm running
> RH-71./XFree86-4.0.3/kde/2.1.2
>
> Any advise from anyone here?
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