Re: 2.6.6-mm2 foibles

Michael Dreher
2004-05-13T20:06:24Z

Am Donnerstag, 13. Mai 2004 21:12 schrieb Felipe Alfaro Solana:
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 20:42, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I just booted to a 2.6.6-mm2 kernel, and discoverd I had no sound. So
> > I logged back out of x, and found I had no keyboard! ssh'd in from
> > the firewall and rebooted it.
> >
> > Both sound, and the backswitch from x were working perfectly up to and
> > including 2.6.6.
>
> I'm also having problems with 2.6.6-mm2 and losing my keyboard. After
> logging into X, after a while, the keyboard stops responding. However,
> my USB mouse still works.

I saw similar thing with 2.6.6 (no -mm), but I can not reproduce it.

IIRC, grepping some binary file triggered it. The grep hung, and keyboard
was dead. Closing the konsole window with mouse gave me my keyboard back.

Michael