Re: Keyboard stuff (was Re: Fix up power managment in 2.6)

Pavel Machek
2003-09-05T20:35:46Z

Hi!

> > > I was hoping software suspend would avoid having to have IBM firmware
> > > involved in the suspend process at all (it can boot, it can shut down, I
> > > just want it to snapshot process state so it comes up with the same
> > > things up on the desktop as last time).
> >
> > Yes software suspend can do that.
>
> Footnote 1: If it worked, which I've never been able to get it to
> do.

Try -test3 with ext2 and minimal set of drivers.

> > > P.S. I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hate it the way the keys on the keyboard
> > > sometimes have an up event delayed (or miss it entirely) and decide to
> > > auto-repeat insanely fast. It happens about twice an hour. I've seen
> > > mouse clicks do it as well. Not a show-stopper, just annoying.
> >
> > I guess that *is* showstopper. Unfortunately notebook keyboards tend
> > to be crappy :-(.
>
> Not on a thinkpad. I could probably bring down a wild caribou with this
> thing, it's designed like a tank. (Part of the reason I bought it. :)
>
> I tried 2.4 for a bit on it when I was first trying to get it working.
> (Largely to assess how much reconfiguration needed to be done, since I'd
> swapped in a hard drive from a toshiba and didn't want to have to reinstall.)
>
> The keyboard never had a problem under 2.4, this is a 2.6 problem.
> It also

You need to report this to vojtech, I guess.
Pavel
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