[SOLVED] Keyboard stopped working suddenly !!

05-15-2009	#1 (permalink)
omara007 Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 16	[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 ?

05-15-2009

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Originally Posted by omara007

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

Check for any error or strange messages in /var/log/messages file ...if you find anything post it here

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05-15-2009	#3 (permalink)
devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 22,124	Are you dual booting? Does keyboard work in GRUB Menu? Is it a USB keyboard? __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

05-15-2009	#4 (permalink)
omara007 Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 16	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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