From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: I have found that when I leave my Fedora Core 2 machine inactive overnight that the keyboard becomes unusable shortly after it is used the next morning. While the keyboard will initially work the next morning it will stop registering keys shortly afterwards (15 minutes). The mouse still works fine. Logging out of X with the mouse doesn't solve the problem (so it shouldn't be a X server problem). Replugging in the keyboard doesn't solve the problem either although the messages log shows that it is autodetected when plugged back in. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.406 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install Fedora Core 2 and updates on a machine with PS/2 keyboard and mouse 2. leave machine logged into X windows session overnight 3. wake machine in the morning and use keyboard at 15 minute intervals opening new terminals occasionally Actual Results: I expected the keyboard to continue to work as it does when the machine is woken. Expected Results: After a woken, the keyboard stops responding to keystrokes after awhile. This problem seems specific to log periods of inactivity (like overnight). I can leave it idle for periods of 30 mins to an hour without this happening. Additional info:
I have seen this as well. I have not been able to figure out what is causing it. I did not have this problem with fc 1.92, only when I upgraded to fc 2.0 did this start happening. I have reinstalled fc 2, but still have the problem.
In case it helps, the machine in question is a dual 3.06 GHz Xeon using a Tyan Tiger i7505 S2668 motherboard with 1.02 Bios firmware. The machine has a Radeon 9600XT and two Western Digital 120 Gb SATA drives connected to a Promise RAID chipset.
One other comment. Since I have seen messages on other mailing lists indicating that battery applets can cause a similar problem by sampling the acpi too often (reducing the rate at which the acpi battery status is checked in the applet reduces or eliminates the problem), I tried stopping the acpid daemon. I did this rather than booting with "acpi=no". So far this seems to be working. The machine survived an overnight rest for the first time in a week without the keyboard freezing shortly after use.
Just wanted to chime in that we're seeing this problem on an PIV 3.0e system with an Intel brand i875 motherboard the system is running a SMP kernel for hyperthreading (2.6.5-1.358smp, haven't upgraded because the new one hangs at boot). We'll try the ACPI flag without changing anything else.
I have this problem on a FC2 dual Athlon machine, but it occurs at random times while using keyboard
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