Hello:
I am doing my first F17 install on i686 Xfce and, for the most part,
everything is coming up nicely. However, I am noticing that sometimes
the keyboard becomes unresponsive. I can't seem to find a reason, it
just happens. My first sense was that it was a hardware problem.
However, one time I decided to let the session time out so that when I
had moved the mouse, I got the "re-enter passwd" dialog box to get back
to my session. As could be expected, I couldn't type my password in. So
I tried selecting new user login and, lo and behold, if I clicked on
myself, it let me enter a password. However, it then immediately went
back to the "re-enter passwd" from the session time out and the keyboard
was dead.
Net result is I find it hard to believe that the hardware is the
problem. But I can't figure out what would be locking up the keyboard so
that it would appear dead. I also note that I had multiple windows open
plus firefox and the keyboard wouldn't work in any of them, so it isn't
shell based. One time I ran a tail of /var/log/messages and nothing
showed up in it once the keyboard died and it did give me other standard
messages when I waited about a half hour to new messages to be flushed
to the file.
Any ideas about where to start? Everything I spotted online didn't seem
to relate ... and I am having a hard time figuring out what a good set
of search terms for this problem is.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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