Re: Mouse/Keyboard problems with 2.5.38

[Stian Jordet <liste@jordet.nu>]

ons, 2002-10-09 kl. 08:22 skrev Vojtech Pavlik:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:48:11AM +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
> > tir, 2002-10-08 kl. 19:25 skrev Vojtech Pavlik:
> > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
> > > > tir, 2002-10-08 kl. 10:17 skrev Vojtech Pavlik:
> > [snip]
> > > > > I really wonder what your keyboard sends for those keys. To avoid the
> > > > > freeze (and rescanning of the keyboard), you should be able to
> > > > > comment-out these lines in atkbd.c:
> > > > > 
> > > > >          case ATKBD_KEY_BAT:
> > > > >                  serio_rescan(atkbd->serio);
> > > > >                  return;
> > > > >  
> > > > It didn't help at all. I just tried 2.5.41 instead of .40, and now I get
> > > > an Oops. Earlier it just froze. Should I write it down?
> > > 
> > > Yes!
> > It won't oops anymore (?) This is really weird, I don't know what I did
> > last night, I was terribly tired, so that must be the reason. .41 and
> > your alt-alt patch, does NOT crash my computer now. No oops, nothing.
> > Attached is a parts of my syslog with debug enabled (and with your
> > alt-alt patch). I logged in, did a echo cut-here >> /var/log/syslog to
> > know what to send you (didn't want everyone at lkml to know my root
> > password, for instance). Then I did this:
> > 
> > Right Shift+Pageup
> > Right Shift+Pageup
> > Right Shift+Pagedown
> > Right Shift+Pagedown
> > Left Shift+Pageup
> > Left Shift+Pageup
> > Left Shift+Pagedown
> > Left Shift+Pagedown
> > Right Shift+Pageup
> > Right Shift+Pageup
> > Right Shift+Pagedown
> > Right Shift+Pagedown
> > Left Shift+Pageup
> > Left Shift+Pageup
> > Left Shift+Pagedown
> > Left Shift+Pagedown
> > 
> > ARROW-UP (to get the echo-line back)
> > ENTER (to make a new mark in syslog).
> > 
> > What I have attached is what is between those cut-here marks.
> > 
> > When I press the right-shift and Page up, I first get unknown scancode
> > 0x1b6. Then, I'll get 0x1aa on every button I press untill I started to
> > press the left-shift instead. After that, the right shift works like it
> > should. I'm totally confused. But I guess you're better reading the logs
> > than I'm. 
> 
> Thanks a lot for helping me here ....
> 
> > Well, as I'm still the only one with the problem, I'm very, very
> > greatful you're taking the time to try to solve this :) Sorry for the
> > delay.
> 
> Actually, Linus was the second who was bitten by it. :) And I managed to
> reproduce it locally yesterday as well, so it's now fixed.
Thank you very, very much. :) It works like a charm now. Maybe I'll get
to sleep the next night :) Great work, and I appreciate that you've been
taking the time sort this out.

Best regards,
Stian Jordet