Re: [arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:21 +0100, Dan Vratil wrote:

Hi, this happens to me sometimes too. I found out, that I just have to switch to console, restart HAL daemon and it works again, so I'd say it could be problem in Xserver, but I'm really not sure about it.

Dan

Could be a problem with the evdev driver that freaks out on your keyboard. Restarting hal generates a load of new hotplug events for Xorg, so your keyboard gets removed from Xorg and hotplugged again, after which it is reinitialized. Is the keyboard you use PS2 or USB?