[ltp] T23 keyboard locks up occasionally

[Julian Underwood]

Yes, I use gpm, at least I /think/ I do:

ps -aux |grep gpm

root      2933  0.0  0.0  2924  388 ?        S    01:24   0:00 gpm -m
/dev/mouse -t ps/2

If this is in fact the culprit, could you recommend a graceful way to
remove gpm?

JU
 

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 05:47, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:49:52AM -0500, Julian Underwood wrote:
> > I'm running Fedora Core 1 on an IBM T23.  Every once in a blue moon the
> > keyboard and track-point will cease working.  The machine will not
> > freeze, because applications will continue to run.
> 
> I've experienced this problem occasionally, though not on my T23.  It
> usually occurred when I switched from a text console to X on my desktop
> machine.  It could be fixed by sshing into the machine and issuing 'sudo
> chvt 1'.  After I removed gpm these freezes nearly disappeared.
> 
> An interesting symptom was that the interrupt counters for keyboard and
> PS/2 mouse in /proc/interrupts would stop increasing during such a
> freeze.
> 
> Do you use gpm?
> 
> Marius Gedminas