[ale] Keyboard lockups

[dcorbin at enttek.com (David Corbin)]

Well, disabling the APIC option has made my system much happier.  Now, twice 
in a day, I've had this problem where the keyboard simply stopped 
functioning.  Both times, I was in X, and both times, I was just about to 
send an IM in Gaim (so it might be a GAIM-related problem).

Rebooting corrected it.  Next time, I'll take smaller steps -- kill GAIM, if I 
can, restart X,  Try typing in a virtual console.  But, in the mean time, any 
other suggestions?