Re: Keyboard oddness.

Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-26T14:26:19Z

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:21:57PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le ven 26/09/2003 ? 16:17, Vojtech Pavlik a écrit :
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:12:47PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >
> > > The difference being the system can then try to rescue my keyboard;)
> > > Right now the only fix I have is to reboot the system because there is
> > > precious little I can do with a stuck keyboard. Thank god software
> > > reboot is always possible be it with the mouse or the acpi button.
> > >
> > > (and this also solves the case when something falls on a keyboard which
> > > does happen now and then. I don't mind a screen of j's when the
> > > alternative is 200 j's screenfulls)
> >
> > You can simply press any key and it'll stop repeating.
> >
> > If that doesn't work, you have a more severe problem than a stuck key,
> > that wouldn't be solved by stopping the repeat.
>
> It stops the repeat all right.
> The problem is the keyboard is dead afterwards:(

That's very interesting. Can you enable DEBUG in i8042.c and post a log?

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR