serious ploblem in kde, bash, gentoo

Xerop · 03-08-2006, 10:35 PM

My bash shell keeps locking up, (konsole) i can unlock it by hitting scroll lock but it does it again for some reason. I was emerging samba, smb4k, and xinetd, I had also installed a network card (rt8961). I was also watching a movie in xine Any one have a clue what this could be? Or maybe how to track what hit scroll lock? (the led on the keyboard doesn't light up.

I really do not want to reinstall gentoo because it is such a pain.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

~Yevgeniy

Xerop · 03-08-2006, 10:55 PM

seem to have found the answer. the xine-ui player seems to be causing problem just emerged Kaffeine and everything is fine. If it is not the problem I will update the post!

Xerop · 03-09-2006, 09:38 AM

Now I realized why this was happening. The player uses fake keypresses to stop the screen saver!!!
as a result my shells always freeze. (In caffiene this is adjustable in xine i haven't checked.)

Hope this helps someone!