On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 23:31 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been having this issue for a few days now and it's really gotten > to the point where I can't stand it anymore.. My laptop (a Dell > Inspiron 8600) is having issues where after a while of use with > various apps (usually gaim, gnome-terminal, and firefox), the > keyboard just locks up. > > Now I'm not sure what's going on when it does this, as everything > looks normal... the only difference I can tell is that the gnome- > terminal prompt goes from it's normal box to a hollow box. during > this time i can't click on menus or do anything useful. > > The one thing I CAN do is to use the keyboard to press CTRL + ALT + > F1 and low and behold, the keyboard works fine again. switch back to > X, and the keyboard doesn't work. rinse, lather, repeat. > > There are no obvious things in Xorg.0.log that could indicate what's > going on, however if I kill gnome-terminal with the mouse, everything > comes back to normal. As I do 90% of my work in a terminal, this is > DAMN annoying... > > Anyone have any ideas on how to track this down? I've drawn a mental > blank. > > -- > Steven Haigh > > Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx > Web: http://www.crc.id.au > Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897 > > Try the updated metacity in this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204519 tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list