Re: [TCLUG:1929] locked console

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

you changed PS2 mice while system was running?  this can be troublesome on some
motherboards.. i fried a board doing that once

On 24-Oct-98 Tim Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Tim Wilson wrote:
> 
>> I was working on my server this afternoon and managed to lock up the
>> console. The keyboard is unresponsive. I killed my shell remotely, but I
>> still could use the keyboard. Is there a way to reset the keyboard without
> 
> Could this message be a little more unclear! What a dope! 
> 
> Cool...I just flamed myself.
> 
> Anyway, what I was trying to say was that I was trying to reinstall XFree
> on the server. It's got one of the 3DImage975 cards and I decided to try
> SuSE's new X server for that previously unsupported card. Anyway, X was
> dying on startup with a message about the mouse not being found.
> 
> I thought I'd try a different mouse to see if that might be a problem.
> After unplugging the original mouse and plugging in a different one, the
> console keyboard was totally locked up. I killed the shell from a
> different workstation, but the keyboard remained locked.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a way to reset the keyboard and mouse devices
> without rebooting. Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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> University of MN, chem. dept.         a little seltzer down your 
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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