[NTLUG:Discuss] Keyboard beeps with SuSE 9.1

[Terry Henderson]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:48:02 -0600, Kevin Brannen <kbrannen at pwhome.com> wrote:
> Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> > David IS Mandala wrote:
> >
> >> First you'll need to set the chvt command suid for root after the test
> >> you will want to remove the suid bit.
> >
> >
> > OK, so after several days without misbehaving, I got another keyboard
> > lock-up today - same symptoms. Suddenly, right in the middle of typing
> > some plain vanilla text, the keyboard starts to beep instead of producing
> > characters - the mouse still works and programs are working OK providing
> > I can interact with them using the mouse or a remote login.
> >
> > Doing a remote login and (as root) running:
> >
> >   % chvt 2
> >   (switches to virtual console 2)
> >   % chvt 7
> >   (goes back into X)
> >
> > ...seems to fix the problem.  After doing that, the keyboard behaves
> > itself perfectly - even allowing me to continue to edit the document
> > I was working on as if nothing had happened.
> >
> > So it looks like I have a work-around that's a lot better than restarting
> > X - but it's still a mystery as to why upgrading from SuSE 8.0 to 9.1
> > and swapping out my nVidia graphics drivers for a newer release has
> > caused this.
> 
> 
> This has been an interesting thread to follow, especially since I'm not
> experiencing it. :-)
> 
> That is truly bizarre behavior!  Since it happens with different video
> card drivers, that makes it sound like it's actually in the keyboard

We don't know for sure if he's tried changing video card drivers.
If he has, he's yet to say so.