On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 19:35:57 -0500, Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to switch to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could be problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it. Dan > Hello, > > Every once in a while -- not too frequently to be unusable, but > certainly enough to be annoying -- the keyboard in KDE will simply > lock up. Mouse will still work fine, and keyboard inputs that don't go > through KDE -- switching to virtual terminals, resetting X via > <ctrl>-<alt>-backspace still work (and, indeed, resetting X and > logging back in is the only thing that fixes it). I can't see any real > pattern as to when this happens -- programs that I basically always > have running, though, are Pidgin, Firefox and keytouchd, as well as, > obviously, plasma, etc. I am running the vanilla KDE 4.2 packages. > > Thanks in advance. This is really starting to become annoying. > > -- > Leonid Grinberg