There appears to be a long outstanding bug in the S3 X servers that completely locks up the keyboard, although the system still runs fine, mouse can be moved, starting programs by mouse and menu works, even cut and paste some text into an xterm works.
But the keyboard appears like it's plugged off. This happens: Either at startup time: xdm is started at boottime, and gives you the login screen. Keyboard still works here, so login with username and password. Then your Xsession starts an BOOOOM, keyboard is off. No Ctrl-Alt-F1, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, nothing. Or when changin runlevels: Just say init 4 (where 4 is just another runlevel, that differs only say in a single getty entry completely unrelated to X. Same effect as above. If you happen to have the characters s, h, u, t, d, o, w, n, ' ' '-', 'r' available somewhere, you may reboot cleanly by cut and paste them into an xterm. (Card is an Elsa Winner 1000 (PCI, 2MB) if that matters) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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