From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.1] atkbd.c: Unknown key released
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:34:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040110193404.GB22654@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040110183116.GA8319@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:31:16PM +0100, Rudo Thomas wrote:
> Hello.
>
> This line shows up twice in dmesg when starting up X.
>
> atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
>
> Tried with 2.6.1, 2.6.1-mm1. It does not happen in 2.6.0, IIRC. I don't seem to
> be able to reproduce the message by pressing any combination on keyboard.
>
> Full dmesg output is atteched.
This is a bug in X. It talks directly to the keyboard controller. And
that's a rather nasty one. I got a couple reports of "My keyboard stops
working in X", and this is exactly why. X can rather easily confuse the
controller by talking to it in parallel with the kernel driver.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-10 18:31 [2.6.1] atkbd.c: Unknown key released Rudo Thomas
2004-01-10 18:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-10 19:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
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