[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[David I S Mandala]

No luck on the nvidia, I have a old Matrox card MGA 2164W Millennium II
AGP. So I don't think it's related to the type of VGA card installed.
This is an OLD system I am running dual PII 400's in an ASUS MB. 

Cheers

David
  
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 04:37 -0800, Steve Baker wrote:
> David IS Mandala wrote:
> > I am running SuSE 9.2 and have the same problem.
> 
> It certainly sounds like the identical problem.  Since I had my
> system download patches from SuSE's server after installation, it's
> very possible that my 9.1 system has essentially identical software to
> your 9.2 system.
> 
>  > 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.
> 
> I havn't noticed it happening specifically with shift keys - but I
> certainly wasn't using the control key at the time it last failed. I
> was midway through typing a paragraph just like this one when it locked
> up the last time.
> 
> > Killing X seems to clear the problem and if you are are not running X
> > the problem never happens.
> 
> Yep - exactly.
> 
> So the big question is:  Do you have nVidia graphics drivers - and if
> so, what version?
> 
> Those drivers don't run when X isn't running - and...
> 
> > My wife's laptop does not seem to
> > have the problem even though she too is running SuSE 9.2
> 
> That would fit with the nVidia theory - presumably her laptop
> doesn't have an nVidia 3D chipset with 3D drivers loaded.
> 
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