[opensuse] 11.0 All lights on on keyboard (not flashing) box still working but no kbd?
Listmates, I just checked on an 11.0 box, tapped on the keyboard and nothing happened. Then looked closer at the keyboard and the scroll lock, numlock, and caplock lights are on steady. That was strange, because moments earlier I was working from a samba share on the box. A quick ssh into the box and check of the logs and all is good - no errors. What happened to the keyboard? I know flashing lights means hardware failure, what do steady lights mean? What to try to get the keyboard back? (we have a kitten, so a prior tap-dance on the keyboard isn't out of the question) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
I just checked on an 11.0 box, tapped on the keyboard and nothing happened. Then looked closer at the keyboard and the scroll lock, numlock, and caplock lights are on steady. That was strange, because moments earlier I was working from a samba share on the box. A quick ssh into the box and check of the logs and all is good - no errors. What happened to the keyboard? I know flashing lights means hardware failure, what do steady lights mean? What to try to get the keyboard back?
(we have a kitten, so a prior tap-dance on the keyboard isn't out of the question)
Flashing is Kernel Panic. Maybe it recovered? Never heard of that.... -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
I just checked on an 11.0 box, tapped on the keyboard and nothing happened. Then looked closer at the keyboard and the scroll lock, numlock, and caplock lights are on steady. That was strange, because moments earlier I was working from a samba share on the box. A quick ssh into the box and check of the logs and all is good - no errors. What happened to the keyboard? I know flashing lights means hardware failure, what do steady lights mean? What to try to get the keyboard back?
(we have a kitten, so a prior tap-dance on the keyboard isn't out of the question)
Flashing is Kernel Panic. Maybe it recovered? Never heard of that....
I'm betting on the kitten tap-dance. Looked with ps axf and the only thing that looked like it could give me problems was powersaved. So I stopped powersaved unplugged the keyboard and plugged it back in and all is good. Gremlins... If it happens again, I'll just try pulling the cable with altering powersaved and see if it does anything different. I seriously doubt that the two are related. Oh, well, chock this one up to a weird event. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates,
I just checked on an 11.0 box, tapped on the keyboard and nothing happened. Then looked closer at the keyboard and the scroll lock, numlock, and caplock lights are on steady. That was strange, because moments earlier I was working from a samba share on the box. A quick ssh into the box and check of the logs and all is good - no errors. What happened to the keyboard? I know flashing lights means hardware failure, what do steady lights mean? What to try to get the keyboard back?
(we have a kitten, so a prior tap-dance on the keyboard isn't out of the question)
I had this happen with a USB keyboard. I plugged in another one beside it and it started working fined. Closed the X session and re-logged in and they both worked. Its really aggravating when it happens on my Laptop. Now I just ssh into it with my phone and restart X. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 28 August 2008 07:40:46 David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I just checked on an 11.0 box, tapped on the keyboard and nothing happened. Then looked closer at the keyboard and the scroll lock, numlock, and caplock lights are on steady. That was strange, because moments earlier I was working from a samba share on the box. A quick ssh into the box and check of the logs and all is good - no errors. What happened to the keyboard? I know flashing lights means hardware failure, what do steady lights mean? What to try to get the keyboard back?
If pressing numlock works (by which I mean it turns on and off the numlock light) then you can try pressing "scroll lock". If that has been accidentally hit, no key will work until it is pressed again If numlock doesn't work, then it sounds like X is locked up (did you enable 3d acceleration with a binary-only driver on that machine?). Since you can log in over ssh, you could try killing Xorg, possibly with -9, and restarting it Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 28 August 2008 07:40:46 David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I just checked on an 11.0 box, tapped on the keyboard and nothing happened. Then looked closer at the keyboard and the scroll lock, numlock, and caplock lights are on steady. That was strange, because moments earlier I was working from a samba share on the box. A quick ssh into the box and check of the logs and all is good - no errors. What happened to the keyboard? I know flashing lights means hardware failure, what do steady lights mean? What to try to get the keyboard back?
If pressing numlock works (by which I mean it turns on and off the numlock light) then you can try pressing "scroll lock". If that has been accidentally hit, no key will work until it is pressed again
If numlock doesn't work, then it sounds like X is locked up (did you enable 3d acceleration with a binary-only driver on that machine?). Since you can log in over ssh, you could try killing Xorg, possibly with -9, and restarting it
Anders
Each of the keys (num,scroll and caps lock) were all non-responsive as was the rest of the keyboard. When I plugged the keyboard back in and taped a key, the 11.0 login appeared just like it usually does and I can log in/out without a problem. Since the keyboard was laying on top of the monitor, I'm betting that the cat crawled up on it and went to sleep with about 20 keys pressed simultaneously. Curiously, I thought I would see some kind of error in the logs, but nada... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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