Weird Keyboard,mouse issue fedora 8

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:31:16 -0600, Richard Bankhead wrote:

> I have done a clean install of Fedora 8 and done the updates too.  I am
> running a HP nx9420 which has an ATI x1600 video card with the Livna
> drivers.
> 
> When the machine is left idle for about 20 minutes or longer the
> keyboard and mouse stop functioning in X.  I can switch to command line
> (i.e. ctrl-alt F1) and the keyboard works great. The Xorg.0.log shows
> the following errors.
> 
>  (EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Locking deadlock.
>         Already locked with context 164288964, trying to lock with
>         context 2.
> (EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Unlocking inconsistency:
>         Context 164288964 trying to unlock lock held by context 2
> (EE) fglrx(1): [DRI] Locking deadlock.
>         Already locked with context 164288964, trying to lock with
>         context 2.
> 
> 
> Is anyone else having this issue or know how to solve this? Or am I
> missing the point here and this is not the cause of the problem.  No
> other errors show in the logs that I can find.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Richard

No, not this particular problem, but plenty of others. For one, my X 
server (with 3D effects enabled) crashed out of the blue, returning me to 
the console prompt. I filed a bug report supplying xorg.conf and 
Xorg.0.log. You may want to do the same.