keyboard stops
 

i have just installed suse 8.2 on my lappy, but i have a very annoying problem.

if i don't use the keyboard for anything over 5mins, it totally stops working. the mouse works find and the machine still responds. i can still ssh into it and have no problems there.

it appears that the only way to restore the keyboard is to reboot.

any ideas?

thanks

UPDATE: It turns out that it happens seemingly at random, even right in the middle of a word.

Please help if u can guys, this is driving me nuts.

Can I ask you some questions? When did you find this problem?If keyboard ,this equipment ,can't work as soon as you installed your system.This is maybe the problem of hardware.The approach of exchanging your keyboard maybe useful for you.If you have used this system for some times.And this event happened to you.I think you must use this system in a wrong way.For example,you maybe installed some software ,and it give you this trouble.

hi, thanks for replying,

The keyboard has always worked before, when I was running redhat 7.3 or windows xp.

i cannot change the keyboard because it is on a laptop that is not supported by the makers and I cannot get spares for it.

The keyboard seems to work fine up until the X login prompt, then i will fail shortly after.

There was not much call to use it in the installation, but it worked fine when needed.

When I installed Redhat 9 on my HP laptop, I had to tap the spacebar during the hardware detection phase to get it to recognize the built in Ps2 keyboard. Not sure if that is the same but could be related..

well it seems to be all detected ok. another thing which may be related is, when I first installed, I set the keyboard to UK english, but the 'z' and 'y' keys were swapped round. I had to re-select UK english to get it back to normal.

I don't know whats going on :)

Hey there,

If you're still having probs with your keyboard in SuSE 8.2, have you tried updating your kernel from the ftp site?

I was having similar probs with my laptop (Toshiba), but passing the paramater disableapic at the bootloader seems to have fixed this for me.

Good luck.

Ciao,

auslander