[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[David I S Mandala]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 07:15 -0600, Terry Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:48:02 -0600, Kevin Brannen <kbrannen at pwhome.com> wrote:
> > Steve Baker wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > This has been an interesting thread to follow, especially since I'm not
> > experiencing it. :-)
> > 
> > That is truly bizarre behavior!  Since it happens with different video
> > card drivers, that makes it sound like it's actually in the keyboard
> 
> We don't know for sure if he's tried changing video card drivers.
> If he has, he's yet to say so.
> 

I believe he's referring to the fact that I have an old Matrox card and
he has an Nvidia card and that we both had the same symptoms.

My machine has not acted up in a while, I've since done an on-line
upgrade so I don't know if it fixed the problem or if it's going to
randomly happen again.

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