On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 12:51:15PM +0100, Markus Lichtenstein wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> >I'm running X under RH 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35 SMP (Dell Poweredge 2200)
> >and from time to time, my keyboard becomes completely unresponsive. I
> >tried restarting fvwm2, but to no avail. I usually end up rebooting my
> >entire machine remotely.
>
> >This is probably not a kernel problem, but I would assume this is the
> >group to confirm that.
>
> Hmm. I am using an IWill DP6NS Board (Dual PPro-200/512) with 2.0.35 and
> 2.0.36 (SuSE 5.2, no X) and seem to have the same problem: After some time
> (maybe several days) the keyboard doesn't work any more. Even pressing
> Num-Lock does not turn the Num-Lock light on. I thought this was a hardware
> defect with my board ... but if you have the same problem ... who knows ...
>
> I think the keyboard controller is integrated with the ALI M5321
> Multi-IO-Chip used on my board. What keyboard controller does your board
> use? Maybe this is related to the problem ...
>
Funny, i have the same problem with a Gigabyte GA686-LX2 Board. I
usually use Linus latest/greatest (2.1.130 SMP now) and i have rebootet
several times while in X and everything working except keyboard.
I found out, that i can cure it by unplugging the keyboard for a moment.
Ciao
Dietmar
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