Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 1997 21:35:40 -0400 (EDT) | From | George <> | Subject | Keyboard funnies |
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I was typing on my Toshiba 2105CS laptop with a PS/2 keyboard in the PS/2 socket and a Logitech mouse in the serial port. I was ppp conneted to Miami University where I was logged into the local VAX through a Linux host.
Then my keystrokes stopped responding. I kept typing, nothing. Hit numlock, nothing. Scroll lock, nada. Alt+F1, no dice. So I tried the builtin keyboard instead of the PS/2 keyboard, same problem, nothing responded.
I bumped the mouse and gpm's cursor showed up. So using what was I on the screen, I pasted together a 'logout' twice to get back to my laptop Linux. I pasted together 'dmesg' and it showed nothing unusual (last 15 lines were all about the PCMCIA modem being removed and inserted from previous use).
As I was trying to cd to the proc filesystem with cut & paste, my BIOS screen blank kicked in from lack of keyboard activity. I then disconnected the PS/2 keyboard and plugged it back in. The three LED's flashed once as it was plugged in but nothing worked other than that.
Kernel is a standard Slackware 3.2 PCMCIA kernel 2.0.29. I don't have any other information and I don't think it'll be reproducible. (No Oops or anything.)
-George
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