[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[David IS Mandala]

I am running SuSE 9.2 and have the same problem. It seems to be related
to the use of the control keys and shift keys in some way, if you hold
down the control key or the shift keys it will happen even faster.
Killing X seems to clear the problem and if you are are not running X
the problem never happens.

I don't have a solution for it though. My wife's laptop does not seem to
have the problem even though she too is running SuSE 9.2

Interesting,

David

On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 01:34 -0800, Steve Baker wrote:
> I just installed SuSE 9.1 on my PC (it had previously been running
> 8.0 - but I bought a new disk drive for the system drive - so this
> is effectively a new install).
> 
> The system runs fine except that after I've been typing for a while,
> the keyboard locks up and every keystroke (including shift/alt/ctrl
> keys) generates a beep.  Ctrl/Alt/F1, Ctrl/Alt/BS and Ctrl/Alt/Del
> do nothing (except beep!).  This morning, it did it in the middle
> of typing an email - it's not like I started any particular program
> that might have triggered the lockup.  I had a shell window up and
> Mozilla running - that was about it.
> 
> I can start up the system and leave it running all night and the
> keyboard still works OK - but after typing for maybe an hour, the lockup
> eventually happens - so it seems to be something that's related to
> typing rather than some random hardware or software event elsewhere.
> 
> When the keyboard is locked, the mouse still works.  Programs still
> seem to run perfectly so long as I can drive them using only the mouse.
> 
> I'm running KDE with KDM.  If do a remote-login, shutdown X and restart
> it, the keyboard is restored to normal for a while - then it fails
> after a similar amount of time.
> 
> Needless to say, it didn't do this under SuSE 8.0 - and if I reboot
> using my old hard drive, it still works OK.
> 
> At this point, I'm running only the stuff that came on the CD's - plus
> the 'online patches' that the installer downloaded.  I didn't choose any
> 'exotic' options during the install - although I did have some problems
> getting my serial mouse to work.
> 
> The only software I've changed aside from that was to download and install
> Mozilla so I could build it with the integrated mail/news/chat, etc.
> 
> The PC is built from parts and has been upgraded so many times that I've
> lost track of what it originally was. The keyboard is from Micro Innovations
> with a split layout - but it's not 'special' in any ways I'm aware of.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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