Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5813
kudzu hangs keyboard on my notebook
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:10:19 EDT
kudzu, when started, either during the initscripts at boot or manually, will lock up the keyboard of my notebook (Smilebook 5100M, PII-233,64M Ram, Intel BX chipset - uhm, I'm affraid I dont know much more about the hardware in there that could relate to the problem) solid. I get some keyboard timeout messages in the kernel logs, but thats it. The installer, especially in text mode, seems to be affected by this as well; at least I experienced said keyboard hangs during a textmode setup. rpm --erase kudzu solves the problem. I personally can recommend that anyway; I wasn't too impressed with the concept in general, neither with the performance in particular when I added a new harddrive and a new ethernet card to the system. Unfortunately, the rpm --erase is not applicable to the installer.... Anyway, since this problem is probably hardware specific, I am not sure what to do about it. Unfortunately I am currently a bit short of time, hence cannot look into that myself. Any ideas ? Mario
Out of curiousity, does the keyboard lock on your notebook if you start up with gpm enabled?
No. I can run gpm just fine. Get a nice, moving mouse cursor.
Apologies for the lack of response; we have been completely unable to duplicate this anywhere. Does running mouseconfig, Xconfigurator, etc., cause similar failures, or just kudzu? Is there any particular point at which the installer locks up the keyboard?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9302 ***