On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:05:36AM +0100, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > 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
FWIW, I've had the same thing happen with my i740 XBF server and kde several times. That was One of the reasons I stopped using KDE. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
