On 10/11/2012 08:43 AM, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Hello: > > I am doing my first F17 install on i686 Xfce and, for the most part, > everything is coming up nicely. However, I am noticing that sometimes the > keyboard becomes unresponsive. I can't seem to find a reason, it just > happens. My first sense was that it was a hardware problem. > > However, one time I decided to let the session time out so that when I had > moved the mouse, I got the "re-enter passwd" dialog box to get back to my > session. As could be expected, I couldn't type my password in. So I tried > selecting new user login and, lo and behold, if I clicked on myself, it let > me enter a password. However, it then immediately went back to the "re-enter > passwd" from the session time out and the keyboard was dead. > > Net result is I find it hard to believe that the hardware is the problem. But > I can't figure out what would be locking up the keyboard so that it would > appear dead. I also note that I had multiple windows open plus firefox and > the keyboard wouldn't work in any of them, so it isn't shell based. One time > I ran a tail of /var/log/messages and nothing showed up in it once the > keyboard died and it did give me other standard messages when I waited about > a half hour to new messages to be flushed to the file. > > Any ideas about where to start? Everything I spotted online didn't seem to > relate ... and I am having a hard time figuring out what a good set of search > terms for this problem is. >
You fail to mention what type of keyboard you have. PS2, USB, Wireless USB, Bluetooth? I have a Wireless USB that becomes non-responsive from time to time. Unplug/plug receiver clears the problem. -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
