Re: Keyboard/mouse lockup... again

From: Sean Hunter (sean@uncarved.co.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 06:37:39 EST


I reported this a while ago. It is caused by gpm. If you start gpm
after boot, it works fine. If you log in via the net and kill gpm,
you get your keyboard back.

Sean

On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 12:46:08PM -0800, Blu3Viper wrote:
> FYI, this anomaly occurs with the linksys cardbus pcmcia network cards as
> well, it loads the pcmcia tulip driver. removal of the card does not return
> the keyboard/mouse.
>
> -d
>
>
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Wakko Warner wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:05:14 -0500
> > From: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com
> > Subject: Keyboard/mouse lockup... again
> >
> > Seems that it wants to do it randomly while the system is booted. No
> > errors. The mouse was working after loading pci_socket and starting up
> > cardmgr. Then all of a sudden, the mouse was no longer functional. After
> > trying to use the mouse, the keyboard no longer worked until gpm was
> > stopped.
> >
> > i know for a fact that after a few minutes (seems random) yenta_init() is
> > called again.
> >
> >
>
>
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