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Remusx2
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 Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: [Solved] Mouse and Keyboard Input stop working suddenly |
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Alright... I'm having an odd problem that has become quite the annoyance.
Last night I rebooted and now, randomly and sporadically the keyboard will stop working, and so will mouse clicks. I cannot recreate this. EVERYTHING keeps on working... ie: music keeps playing, movie keeps playing, emerge keeps running. Dmesg shows nothing. I either have to hard reboot, or run to the school and ssh into my machine and issue a reboot that way. It's cold now so I have to just hard boot rather then walk to the school 
Any ideas? I'm at a loss where to start
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Brandon
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bunder
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:15 am Post subject: |
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ati or nvidia? xorg-supplied drivers, or vendor drivers? agpgart? glx? power fluctuations at the video card?
just a few things to check that might cause random gui-hardlocks.
cheers
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Remusx2
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: |
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nVidia, Vedor-supplied drivers, GLX. Also, I have never had any problems before, so I doubt it's power fluctuations. I've been running this machine for a few years with no problems like that.
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bunder
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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recently updated drivers perhaps?
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Remusx2
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| Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:26 am Post subject: |
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[ebuild U ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 [100.14.09] USE="acpi%*"
[ebuild U ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [1.0.20070302]
Fri Nov 16 05:00:01 MST 2007
Nice call
Maybe I'll downgrade and see if that solves anything. If so, should I file a bug report?
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bunder
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| Remusx2 wrote: | [ebuild U ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 [100.14.09] USE="acpi%*"
[ebuild U ] media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20070621 [1.0.20070302]
Fri Nov 16 05:00:01 MST 2007
Nice call
Maybe I'll downgrade and see if that solves anything. If so, should I file a bug report?
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perhaps not... i've found certain cards work good with certain driver versions... i wouldn't call it a bug, and it should probably belong upstream than on bugs.g.o.
cheers
ps: you might also want to fiddle with fast writes and side block addressing (/etc/conf.d/nvidia i believe)
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georgir
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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so is it confirmed that this was the problem?
and why is it even theoretically possible for a video-card driver to have such symptoms? i could understand display lockups ot total crashes, but kbd/mouse?
does ctrl+alt+f1, ctrl+alt+backspace also stop working?
does "restoretextmode" command through ssh session help? (you need emerged svgalib and need to have done "savetextmode" once before, while in text mode)
have you tried un/re-plugging your kbd/mouse when they stop working?
are they usb or ps/2 devices? maybe wireless?
have you changed any apic/acpi/powersaving settings recently, in bios or in kernel? |
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