[CLUE-Tech] HELP! Keyboard Freezing

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On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 21:50:36 -0600
David Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net> wrote:

> Jonathan Anscher wrote:
> > i just recently moved to linux and enountered a major problem. the
> > keyboard froze after a few minutes of working with it. i have read
> > several reports of similar things happening, hoqwever, have heard no
> > definative answer to it. Upon shutting the computer down and
> > restarting it, keyboard function returns, however, i lose it fairly
> > quickly.
> 
> This page (first hit on google):
> 
> http://ibgwww.colorado.edu/~lessem/5000e/
> 
> suggests that your problem has to do with the touchpad sending data
> when psaux isn't being read.  You can unfreeze the keyboard by 
> suspend/resume, or use GPM so that something is reading psaux.  It
> also says that the problem is after exiting X, so this may not help
> you.
> 
> You should be able to get and install gpm easily from wherever else
> you installed Red Hat, and all the dependencies should be in the same
> place.
> 
> The above page also implies that this laptop is less than reliable, so
> it may be a hardware problem.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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