[arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

2009/3/4 Leonid Grinberg <lgrinberg at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Every once in a while -- not too frequently to be unusable, but
> certainly enough to be annoying -- the keyboard in KDE will simply
> lock up. Mouse will still work fine, and keyboard inputs that don't go
> through KDE -- switching to virtual terminals, resetting X via
> <ctrl>-<alt>-backspace still work (and, indeed, resetting X and
> logging back in is the only thing that fixes it). I can't see any real
> pattern as to when this happens -- programs that I basically always
> have running, though, are Pidgin, Firefox and keytouchd, as well as,
> obviously, plasma, etc. I am running the vanilla KDE 4.2 packages.
>
> Thanks in advance. This is really starting to become annoying.
>
> --
> Leonid Grinberg
>

Look at the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession-errors and dmesg. There
may be some useful info what can be wrong.