|Keyboard locks after 15 mins

Stimz · 08-21-2005, 02:59 AM

Good Day,
I'm running Debian Sarge on a P3 800 Compaq Armada Laptop, I have XFCE4 as my DM. This is a new install and so there may have been problems early on, but i'm not sure. ANYWAY. While in GUI I can use everything fine, keyboard works, then when the program load increases and about 15 minutes in the keyboard ceases to work. I can't tell you anything more than that, mouse works fine, I can access programs and so forth, just the keyboard doesnt work.
?

Thanks,
Stimz

rjlee · 08-21-2005, 03:39 AM

What kind of keyboard do you have (AT, PS/2, USB)? Also, take a look in /proc/modules; can you work out which keyboard driver is actually being used?

basileus · 08-29-2005, 03:23 AM

I'd check BIOS and try disabling all powersave thingies. There might be some strange "keyboard lock" options there also. One never knows. Removing "apmd", "acpid" and all cpu frequency scaling programs (powernowd, cpufreqd, cpudynd) might also be a good idea.

And just in case check Xscreensaver settings. They are probably completely unrelated to this, but there are some powersave features there also.