[opensuse] Keyboard input not working in one KDE account.
Hi, I have SUSE 10.1 installed on a machine that has one user accoun that no longer gets keyboard input. I rebooted the machine to thinking that it was a bad keyboard but the replacement keyboard worked to log into the account but does not work once in the account. I logged out of the account and into another user account and the keyboard works just fine in the other account. Back to the first account and it still only allows me to log into the account but does not receive keyboard intput once logged in. This account uses the KDEwallet tool for password authentication. I tried to type in a terminal window and still no keyboard input. This account is really stuck because once the screensaver kicks in with password protection it can not be logged back into. I am able to remotely access the system and the user account, access the file system for the troubled user. But I do not know what to do to fix the problem. The problem just started yesterday as the machine was left with the screensaver on (Clock) and we were away from the machine for a few hours then when we came back it was locked-up. The applications that were open were Kontact, Konquerer, Firefox. Any suggestions on how to fix this will be appreciated. Thanks, -- Bruce Samhaber Senior Hardware Design Consultant Tel: 613-724-5987 112 Kenora St. Fax: 613-724-5987 Ottawa, Ontario Cel: 613-297-6961 K1Y 3L1 mailto: bsamhaber@sympatico.ca http://www3.sympatico.ca/marypat/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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I have SUSE 10.1 installed on a machine that has one user accoun that no longer gets keyboard input. I rebooted the machine to thinking that it was a bad keyboard but the replacement keyboard worked to log into the account but does not work once in the account. I logged out of the account and into another user account and the keyboard works just fine in the other account.
Back to the first account and it still only allows me to log into the account but does not receive keyboard intput once logged in. This account uses the KDEwallet tool for password authentication. I tried to type in a terminal window and still no keyboard input. This account is really stuck because once the screensaver kicks in with password protection it can not be logged back into.
I am able to remotely access the system and the user account, access the file system for the troubled user. But I do not know what to do to fix the problem. The problem just started yesterday as the machine was left with the screensaver on (Clock) and we were away from the machine for a few hours then when we came back it was locked-up. The applications that were open were Kontact, Konquerer, Firefox.
Any suggestions on how to fix this will be appreciated.
First thing I would try, ssh into troubled account and mv ~/.kde to ~/.kde.keep. Then log out the account and see if the keyboard works when you log back in. If this works, the problem is probably related to a kde setting related to the display (I'm guessing here). I have observed similar on my 10.1 x86_64 X2 system, but do not see it if I let the system complete its login (completely) before I try to use the keyboard. But my system is using a kernel from 10.2 (kernel-default-2.6.18.8-396.1)because I did not have usb access with the kernels available for 10.1. Funny, would work from the live cd but would not even complete the install with usb devices attached. gud luk, - -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHi7GxClSjbQz1U5oRArglAJ9f4YUqVegX9o/sqG82Ue4D335maQCfY08+ Pf/9C99SNmm+yCPGl5VJFn0= =u/Qf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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