F17: no keyboard response, mouse/trackpad okay, can ssh in

[Sjoerd Mullender]

On 2013-01-03 13:03, Joel Rees wrote:
> After the problems of the last weekend, starting getting strange stuff
> where the keyboard would freeze if sat on the screensaver login screen
> too long. Problem got worse, and after (finally) getting a good (?)
> yum update, and installing the GIMP, inkscape, libreoffice, and some
> others, a reboot and no keyboard response at all. Not even switching
> to a virtual screen.
> 
> I can ssh in and systemctl isolate multi-user.target and get a console
> and the keyboard works just fine in the console, so it's an X11 issue.
> Found an old thread for F17 where reloading the evdev stuff and
> generating a new config (xorg -configure, I think) fixed a problem
> with no keyboard/mouse, and I tried reloading xorg-x11-drv-evdev and
> runing xorg -configure and got a segfault or something similar and no
> new configuration file. (No xorg.conf to start with, FWIW.)
> 
> Haven't find any relavent error messages in /var/log so far.
> 
> Any ideas what's going on here?
> 
> --
> Joel Rees
> 

Quite possibly it's the slow keys feature.  I found that if I use gdm to
log in, when you hold the shift key for several seconds, the slow key
feature is turned on.  When this happens, you have to press each key for
a long time before it does anything.  You can turn off slow key again by
again holding the shift key for several seconds.
I have since switched to lightdm.

-- 
Sjoerd Mullender

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