[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[Terry Henderson]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 01:34:30 -0800, Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> 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?
> 

Describe your hardware.  
See:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/f5326b9ece9cf961/b997dc93a8b44861?q=keyboard+freeze+%229.1%22+group:*suse*&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fas_q%3Dkeyboard+freeze%26as_epq%3D9.1%26safe%3Dimages%26as_ugroup%3D*suse*%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D5%26as_miny%3D2004%26as_maxd%3D8%26as_maxm%3D1%26as_maxy%3D2005%26lr%3Dlang_en%26hl%3Den%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#b997dc93a8b44861