Re: 2.6.5: keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop

["R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday 07 of April 2004 12:33, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > FYI, I've just had a keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite
> > 1400-103) with the 2.6.5 kernel.
> >
> > It occured when I was typing some text in kmail.  Everything worked just
> > fine except for the keyboard that was locked (dead - even capslock did
> > not work). Fortunately the (USB) mouse worked, so I could reboot the
> > machine "gently" to get my keyboard back in order.
> >
> > I use RH9 with some modifications to support the 2.6.x kernels.  Attached
> > is the .config.
>
> Hi,
>
> Was anything in your logs about that?

No sign of anything related to the keyboard.

> I think that maybe you should disable PREEMPTION.

Well, maybe, but I was using all of the previous 2.6.x _with_ the preepmtion 
enabled and nothing like this happened before.

> Or use different distribution than RH9. They often modify gcc and other
> programs, maybe even X - maybe try to compile your kernel on "vanilla" gcc
> 3.3.3. I can give you a shell on computer with Gentoo and working gcc. Or
> change distribution: Gentoo works ok for me and my friends! :-)

Look, I've been using different variants of the 2.6.x kernels on this very 
machine/distro since early 2.6.0-test and I hadn't seen _anything_ like this 
before 2.6.5-rc2 (then I saw something like this first).  I _really_ don't 
think it's a distribution-related issue.

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