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jserink
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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:21 pm Post subject: Lost keyboard while in X |
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Hi All:
Just before end of business today I lost my keyboard while in X windows. Its on a laptop and I lost both the external USB keyboard on the laptop as well. I had mouse control but no keyboard. I ssh'd in from my iPhone and killed my spice VM as I thought that was the problem but it was not, no keyboard.
Does anyone know of a way to get X to re-recognize the keyboard WITHOUT restarting X?
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John |
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WvR
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Without information as to what happened, it is impossible to diagnose the problem and thus it is impossible to judge whether or not a restart of X is necessary.
From my experience, the common cause is that you have updated Xorg or something related to Xorg, and did not recompile the evdev driver. So, you can try
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but then you have to restart X to make everything work again. |
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jserink
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| WvR wrote: | Without information as to what happened, it is impossible to diagnose the problem and thus it is impossible to judge whether or not a restart of X is necessary.
From my experience, the common cause is that you have updated Xorg or something related to Xorg, and did not recompile the evdev driver. So, you can try
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emerge xf86-input-evdev
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but then you have to restart X to make everything work again. |
Thanx for the reply WVR.
I didn't update anything, I was scrolling through the columns in excel 2010 inside a windows 7 VM running under spice and qemu 1.22. The spreadsheet went crazy continually spooling and the keyboard was gone. I still had mouse control but no keyboard, both USB external and the laptop native. I removed the USB key board and readded it, no effect. I had two bash consoles open and neither would record any keystrokes. It was done.
I brought up task manager (xfce4.10) and killed the qemu vm and I still didn't get the keyboard back. I exited X using the mouse to logout and I had my keyboard back.
My purpose of the post is to see if there is anyway I could get the keyboard back with closing X.
I guess I should also change my login to start the VM before X so that is I have to lose X I don't lose the VM.
Cheers,
John |
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