Re: Keyboard locking up in FC17
On 25 September 2013 13:01, Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 September 2013 19:33, Tod Thomas <fr33zone(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've read that fc17 is end of life but maybe someone has run into this. I'm
> running fc17, latest upgrades, using XFCE, and periodically the keyboard
> just stops working, mouse is fine. I end up having to mouse over ALL of my
> open windows saving and closing. Once I logoff and logon everything works
> normally. I've checked the Xorg log, messages, dmesg, everything I can
> think of but its sill happening. I even tried turning off the screen saver
> but that didn't help either. It happens inconsistently which makes it even
> more annoying :)
>
> Not sure there's a single answer given the possible moving parts involved.
> If nobody can think of anything off the top of their head could someone
> suggest a good way to try and debug? I'll be upgrading here eventually but
> right now the timing is not optimal.
>
Can you change to a virtual console (Ctl-Alt-Fn where n!=1) when this
happens? (And if not can you do it normally?) N.B. Alt-F1 should get
you back to the desktop. Might help in working out whether this is a
problem with X or with XFCE.
Also, may want to check you've not accidentally turned on some
accessibility option like sticky keys. (This used to catch me out in
KDE because a long shift keypress enabled it, until I got fed up
enough to turn that off.)
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imalone
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