[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[David I S Mandala]

You might add the icon on your desktop, that will save going over to
another machine to do a remote login.

I'm not sure but 9.2 now seems stable. I did a full remote upgrade and
it's not doing it anymore. That said, can't prove a negative so who
knows.

David

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 16:48 -0800, 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.
> 
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