Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:05:43
Message-Id: 20121114164527.8dab73c575876fe74d36f9fe@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X by Florian Philipp
1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:43:47 +0100
2 Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 >
5 > I think you just have to bite the bullet and start swapping parts of
6 > your setup until the error disappears: Try a different keyboard, or a
7 > different USB port. Use different (older + newer) versions of
8 > xorg-server, xf86-input-evdev and so forth.
9 >
10
11 It's a software problem. When the keyboard stops I can immediately
12 shut down X and it will be working. The hardware is not the fault.
13
14 You are probably correct. Currently, I am rather busy with other
15 things and can't take the time to do much software downgrades and
16 comparisons. For the moment, at least, my solution will be to
17 stop and then restart X.
18
19 But if things do not clear up, I eventually will have to search for
20 a way to debug or get some sort of diagnostic output.
21
22 Frank Peters

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Keyboard Stops Working Under X Steven Lembark <lembark@×××××××.com>