From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikael Pettersson Subject: keyboard problems on Dell Latitude E6230 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 10:13:57 +0100 Message-ID: <21235.21077.175269.903168@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com ([209.85.215.52]:63640 "EHLO mail-la0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754961AbaBFJOC (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Feb 2014 04:14:02 -0500 Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm having problems with the built-in keyboard on Dell Latitude E6230 laptops and Linux 3.12/3.13 kernels: - sometimes the keyboard just keeps sending the same key code, as if the key was held down permanently; sometimes that can be cured by pressing ^C or something, but often only a reboot fixes it - sometimes the keyboard just stops sending key codes; only a reboot fixes it This issue has plagued me since Nov last year when I got my first E6230. Last week I got a replacement machine, but it too has the same problems. Since I haven't seen this problem with any other laptop under Linux for the last 15 years or so, I have to conclude that there's some HW issue with these machines that the Linux kernel doesn't handle. Any ideas?