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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Richard Jonsson <richie@coderworld.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Keyboard weirdness: keys get stuck
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:46:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803292246.58524.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EEA097.5000701@coderworld.net>

On Saturday, 29 of March 2008, Richard Jonsson wrote:
> With 2.6.25-rc6-git-something I have experienced stuck keys. When typing 
> a  sentence a character repeats aboooooooout 10 times, or as 'about' 
> above ;). I tested with a new kernel today, 2.6.25-rc7-git-something and 
> the problem is still present.
> 
> With 2.6.25-rc3 the keyboard is fine, and I've not tried with any kernel 
> in between.
> 
> As a side note, timestamps gets mixed up in dmesg output in a 1-2 second 
> span. Maybe related?
> 
> This is on a HP dv2140eu laptop, x86_64 SMP. Please cc me if you want 
> configuration details or testing to be done.

This doesn't sound good at all.

Ingo, Thomas, are there any obvious candidates in the x86 and/or scheduler area
that might cause it to happen?

Rafael

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-29 20:03 Keyboard weirdness: keys get stuck Richard Jonsson
2008-03-29 21:22 ` Rene Herman
2008-03-29 22:11   ` Richard Jonsson
2008-03-29 22:24     ` Rene Herman
2008-03-29 21:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2008-03-29 22:39 ` Richard Jonsson
2008-03-29 23:43   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-03-30  0:01     ` Richard Jonsson
2008-03-30  0:46       ` Richard Jonsson
2008-03-30  9:33         ` Dhaval Giani
2008-03-30 10:56           ` Richard Jonsson
2008-03-30  4:04   ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-30  7:45     ` Richard Jonsson
2008-03-30  9:23     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-03-30 10:09   ` Richard Jonsson

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