Subj : Re: Help in diagnosing keyboard problem? - commands to reset keyboard? To : comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help From : eric Date : Fri Jul 23 2004 08:41 pm Brendan S (Scratch User) wrote: >Eric Enright wrote: >> Brendan S (Scratch User) wrote: >> >>>Hi >>> >>>I recently installed a new motherboard/processor (gigabyte 8knxp/P4 3.0G) on my RH9 distribution and ever since I have been having an intermittant keyboard problem. I was on the standard kernel, but upgraded to 2.4.20-31.9smp. That helped a bit, but the problem still occurs. The one custom module I use is iteraid.o, which is needed to access the ATA drives on the 8knxp. >>> >>>The problem is this: >>>(a) once or twice a day my keyboard will do one of the following: >>>(b) act as if the control key is held down (each key press/mouse click becomes ctrl-key or ctrl-click) >> >> >> >>>I think this is a problem with the input driver. Any ideas about what I could try in diagnosing the cause of this/who I can talk to to find a solution would be appreciated. >> >> >> This occasionally happens to me on my Toshiba Satellite A30. >> I'm not exactly sure what causes it, but I have found that >> CTRL+ALT+F1-ing into text mode (or in that case, ALT+F1-ing ;) >> and then back into X resolves the issue. >> >> Worthy of note, is that this has never happened to me while >> using Solaris on the same laptop (which uses Xsun, a derivative >> of Xorg). Apparently XFree86 accesses keyboard hardware >> directly (see the "atkbd.c: unknown key released - XFree86 >> shouldn't access hardware directly" bug), so the two combined >> lead me to believe it's an XFree86 thing. >> >> HTH, > >Yes, I have noticed that if I log off and log on again that usually resolves it (alt-F1 doesn't seem to work for me). > >Is there any command that I can issue from the command line to reset the keyboard or X but leave my open windows open? Not that I know of off-hand. I imagine that switching video resolutions would work though (CTRL-ALT- and CTRL-ALT- on the keypad), provided your X server is configured for it, which it probably is. If so, any type of video resolution change would do, and it wouldn't be too difficult to come up with something to change/change-back on demand. -- Eric Enright /"\ ericAtiptsoftDcom \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML E-Mail Public Key: 0xBEDF636F / \ .