[NTLUG:Discuss] Dead Keyboard

[Kevin Brannen]

I'll add bit of fuel to this fire...

This was a well know "bug" in early 1.1.x days, so I never installed
GPM.  Even now, I avoid it, though it's said to be "fixed".  I guess
your experiences dispell that. :-)  I even go so far as to recompile
_vim_ which comes with the GPM option on the SuSE CD.

Kevin


Dan Carlson wrote:
> 
> I had a keyboard appear to quit working a couple weeks ago when I switched
> to an AGP graphics adapter.  The same problem occured when I tried a
> different AGP graphics adapter with a different controller from a different
> manufacturer.  After a little trial and error I determined that the source
> of the problem was GPM, the console mouse driver.  When GPM is run on my
> system with either of these two AGP graphics adapters, it locks up the
> keyboard.  I had had other problems with GPM in the past and I didn't really
> need it, so I removed it from the configuration and all has worked well
> since.  Your problem may be completely different, but if you are running
> GPM, try killing it to see if that helps any.
> 
> Dan Carlson
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lee" <lee at brave.com>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 9:20 AM
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Dead Keyboard
> 
> > How would one reset a keyboard that's dead?