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Hi folks .. I was working on my CentOS linux .. doing some graphics editing on Inkscape .. and at once, keyboard stopped working !! .. I restarted the machine, ...
  1. 05-15-2009 #1
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    [SOLVED] Keyboard stopped working suddenly !!



    Hi folks ..

    I was working on my CentOS linux .. doing some graphics editing on Inkscape .. and at once, keyboard stopped working !! .. I restarted the machine, but Linux is still not being able to receive anything from the keyboard except the login name and passowrd !!! .. once in, I can't use the keyboard at all !!!! .. what could be the problem ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by omara007 View Post
    Hi folks ..

    I was working on my CentOS linux .. doing some graphics editing on Inkscape .. and at once, keyboard stopped working !! .. I restarted the machine, but Linux is still not being able to receive anything from the keyboard except the login name and passowrd !!! .. once in, I can't use the keyboard at all !!!! .. what could be the problem ?

    looks strange to me....keyboard work till login screen and then goes off
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    I managed to find the root cause for this problem. Effectively, I was working on Inkscape and I pressed one key repeatedly and that disabled the keyboard, or made its response strangely slow so as you might think it's not responds to key presses. I went to the preferences and tried couple of setting combinations and now it's properly working.
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