Folks, I just replaced RedHat with SuSE8.2 on my Thinkpad T23. While it looks good, I'm having this weird keyboard problem that I've never seen before with any other distro: Sometimes (at random) the keyboard refuses to accept input. Happened once during install so I couldn't set the root password, forcing a forced reboot and reinstall. It's annoying if I'm in X as root, but YaST can reset the keyboard, but as I usually boot to the console it causes big problems when I can't log in or out. Also, if I'm in X as a normal user, resetting the keyboard requires the root password so I'm stuck with forced reboot. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this and/or knows how to fix it. Been looking around and haven't found any other mentions of this kind of thing, except a PCMCIA/keyboard lock issue. I tried the fix below and it didn't work:
Insert the option irq_list=3,5,7,9,10 for the variable PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS in the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, so only the listed IRQs will be probed. Only list available IRQs.
PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS="irq_list=3,5,7,9,10"
Thanks