On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Giles Lean wrote:

.. 
.. Hi,
.. 
.. I think I saw this mentioned on the list, but I just had my keyboard
.. die on me while running under X (XFree86 3.3.1, S3 server).
.. 
.. 	pc: timeout updating leds
.. 
.. Unplugging and re-plugging the keyboard woke it up.
.. 
.. I don't know if the resolution of this is that it is a keyboard
.. driver problem or an XFree86 problem.
.. 


Are you using pcvt ? -- then try to build a kernel with

     options         PCVT_NO_LED_UPDATE=1

in its configuration.

- Erik