Re: Keyboard oddness.

Rob Landley
2003-09-22T20:09:19Z

On Sunday 21 September 2003 05:04, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 04:33:22PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> > I've mentioned my keyboard repeat problems before. I grepped through the
> > logs and found a whole bunch of these type messages:
> >
> > Aug 17 05:28:48 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> > 0x1d0, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> > Aug 19 09:06:51 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> > 0x8e, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> > Aug 22 04:33:36 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode
> > 0xcd,
> >
> > (There's more, it just goes on and on...)
> >
> > Any clues? (Thinkpad iSeries... 1200, I think.)
>
> What kernel version? Can you test with latest?

So the key repeat problem is still happening with -test5-mm4. I just had the
return key stick on me, and gave it a good three seconds to stop repeating
before I hit another key. It didn't. I noticed after it stuck that the
next time I hit it, it didn't register. (I unstuck it with the up-arrow key,
I believe. But after that one failure to press, it seemed to be nicely
reset...)

Here's a cut and paste from a tail of /var/log/messages:

Sep 22 12:50:38 localhost -- landley[984]: LOGIN ON tty1 BY landley
Sep 22 13:24:05 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Sep 22 14:12:26 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x94,
on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
Sep 22 14:12:26 localhost kernel: i8042 history: 18 98 18 98 26 a6 39 b9 1f 9f
15 1f 95 9f 12 94
Sep 22 14:22:05 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0xa6,
on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
Sep 22 14:22:05 localhost kernel: i8042 history: 94 15 95 39 14 b9 18 94 98 39
b9 23 12 a3 92 a6
Sep 22 14:39:06 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x1cb,
on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
Sep 22 14:39:06 localhost kernel: i8042 history: cb e0 4b e0 cb e0 4b e0 cb e0
4b e0 cb 4b e0 cb
Sep 22 14:58:05 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x1d0,
on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
Sep 22 14:58:05 localhost kernel: i8042 history: 1c 90 9c e0 48 e0 c8 23 0f a3
8f 1c 9c 50 e0 d0
Sep 22 14:59:46 localhost kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0xb1,
on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
Sep 22 14:59:46 localhost kernel: i8042 history: 2d ad 2d ad 17 97 19 99 1e 15
9e 95 17 97 22 b1
Sep 22 15:02:11 localhost su(pam_unix)[1649]: session opened for user root by
landley(uid=500)

Any clues? (This happens to me at least once an hour...)

Rob