Messages in this thread | | | From | (joost witteveen) | Subject | Re: 1.3.79 - The Keyboard that never returned... | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 1996 20:08:17 +0100 (MET) |
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> Wonder if this is related to my dead keyboard syndrome. my no concernable > reason my keyboard will lockup completely dead. Reset button time. tasks > are still running as I watched a kernel re-compile finish once. The > screen will blank but nothing on the keyboard is active. There are no > messages written in syslog. This will usually occur if I leave the room > for a minute and usually when in an editor with half finished mail :) But > it has happened at a prompt as well. and it's really bothering me. > Somedays it doesn't happen at all, but other days like today it occured > 3-4 times.
I used to see the "dead keyboard syndrome" too, but I could just make the keyboard revive by unplugging and plugging it into the computer again... (and I saw some keyboard timeout message on my syslogs)
> Pentium 100 Gigabyte with 256k of cache 16meg of mem.. Old old mitsumi AT > keyboard. PCI triton. 4 IDE drives and a soundblaster. ATI mach-32 ISA with > 2meg of video. APM is disabled, but everything else is set to its fastest > settings.
PCI triton too, no sound, CL 5430 video, no APM, P75 > > Colten Edwards > >
-- joost witteveen joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl joostje@dds.hacktic.nl -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!
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