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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86-PAT tree merge causes keyboard problems
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:01:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB07F39.4080205@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090916052657.GA1897@phenom2.trippelsdorf.de>

On 09/15/2009 10:26 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> 
> OK. I've attached most of those.
> The Xorg.log is also interesting:
> 
> (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> 

Okay, that explains the keyboard failure.  What you're really seeing is
a systemic failure of the X server.  Suresh thought it might be mapping
the frame buffer incorrectly.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 20:52 x86-PAT tree merge causes keyboard problems Markus Trippelsdorf
2009-09-15 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-16  2:07   ` Suresh Siddha
2009-09-16  5:26   ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2009-09-16  6:01     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-09-16 21:28       ` Suresh Siddha
2009-09-17  3:40         ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2009-09-17 21:13         ` [tip:x86/pat] x86, pat: don't use rb-tree based lookup in reserve_memtype() tip-bot for Suresh Siddha

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