[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[Steve Baker]

David IS Mandala wrote:

> First you'll need to set the chvt command suid for root after the test
> you will want to remove the suid bit.

OK, so after several days without misbehaving, I got another keyboard
lock-up today - same symptoms. Suddenly, right in the middle of typing
some plain vanilla text, the keyboard starts to beep instead of producing
characters - the mouse still works and programs are working OK providing
I can interact with them using the mouse or a remote login.

Doing a remote login and (as root) running:

   % chvt 2
   (switches to virtual console 2)
   % chvt 7
   (goes back into X)

...seems to fix the problem.  After doing that, the keyboard behaves
itself perfectly - even allowing me to continue to edit the document
I was working on as if nothing had happened.

So it looks like I have a work-around that's a lot better than restarting
X - but it's still a mystery as to why upgrading from SuSE 8.0 to 9.1
and swapping out my nVidia graphics drivers for a newer release has
caused this.

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