[arch-general] Keyboad in KDE locks up

[Jan de Groot]

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?