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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jurriaan on adsl-gate <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz
Subject: Re: Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 12:52:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216115221.GC470@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040207064027.GA20495@gates.of.nowhere>

Hi!

> On my laptop, I get a lot of
> 
> Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed.
> 
> That may well be the case, I use my normal hands on a small
> laptop-keyboard.
> Why is that message printed? There nothing I can do about pressing
> multiple keys by accident, so I don't think it's useful.
> 
> It does, however, frequently mess up the commandline, which leads to big
> frustration.
> 
> Couldn't this be wrapped in #ifdef ATKBD_DEBUG or something? Is it
> really necessary to see this message?

Its error condition -- keyboard lost track of keys -- and
yes thats worth a printk. Try running klogd.
-- 
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         


      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-07  6:40 Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed Jurriaan on adsl-gate
2004-02-16 11:52 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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