[18858] in Athena Bugs
Re: keyboard on O2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Mon Mar 5 19:52:07 2001
Message-Id: <200103060052.TAA19608@w20-spare-ultra5.mit.edu>
To: Liana Lareau <fyfer@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Mar 2001 19:12:32 EST."
<200103060012.TAA01424@hodge-podge.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 19:52:03 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> Hi,
>
> A user on w20-575-119 (an O2) had his keyboard stop working after
> locking his screen with xss. Unplugging and replugging the keyboard
> didn't help. He wasn't doing anything else that I know of that would
> cause this problem, so maybe it's a hardware problem and I should ask
> hotline.
>
> Liana
You didn't include here the relevant information that you zephyred
about; from what I gathered:
* You were able to get the passwd prompt to display, by using the
mouse, that the passwd box timed out as usual, and that the
screensaver moved normally.
* That alt-shift-f11-greyslash wasn't sufficient to kill the
xserver.
* That the keyboard was working usefully after rebooting the
machine with the soft power button.
