DSL Embedded :: Lose keyboard input with embedded DSL

I have a strange problem. After a couple of minutes using DSL embedded, I lose the ability to type data using the keyboard. I'm not sure what triggers this. Any ideas?

The mouse and scroll wheel work fine, but I just can't do any typing.

I am using embedded DSL through WindowsXP on a DELL Latitude C610 with 1.2GHz and 768meg RAM, in case the hardware is any relation to the problem.

This happens to me every once in a while. I run winXP as well.
My fix is that i hit cntrl-alt-2 and type

qemu> stop

at the qemu menu then type

qemu> c

what this does is stop the emulation and then restarts it. It seems to work for me. Also try typing help at the qemu console prompt for more options.

original here.