From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263001AbUFJUih (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:38:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263024AbUFJUih (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:38:37 -0400 Received: from mail.stdbev.com ([63.161.72.3]:15799 "EHLO mail.standardbeverage.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263001AbUFJUie (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:38:34 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:46:24 -0500 From: "Jason Munro" Subject: Re: Toshiba keyboard lockups To: "Oleg Drokin" Reply-to: Cc: Fernando.Paredes@sun.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200406101915.i5AJFCBu197611@car.linuxhacker.ru> References: <40A162BA.90407@sun.com> <200405121149.37334.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> <40C7880C.4000401@sun.com> <200406101915.i5AJFCBu197611@car.linuxhacker.ru> X-Mailer: Hastymail 1.1-CVS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2:15:12 pm 06/10/04 Oleg Drokin wrote: > Hello! > > Fernando Paredes wrote: > > FP> Applied these patches. Nothing while tail'ing /var/log/messages. > Nothing FP> in the root console that I can see either. > FP> Patched the source to 2.6.6. Still get the same lockups, totally > random. FP> Any more ideas? > > Not sure if I have exact problem like you do, but at least I have > something similar. Once in a while keyboard suddenly stopps working, > touchpad still work though (I have Toshiba Satellite Pro (centrino > based) laptop here). I figured out that if I leave the keyboard for > some time (up to 2 minutes), it starts to work again, at least this > was the case with XFree 4.4, during those no-keyboard times, mouse > cursor was moving with small jumps (when keyboard works it moves > smoothly). I upgraded to FC2 (and hence to xorg X server) today, and > lockup happened once already, the "wait for some time" strategy did > not work, so I remembered initially I thought this was something bad > pressed on keyboard I have had similar issues with a toshiba laptop keyboard with 2.6+ kernels for awhile. I have found that repeating the last key combination pressed will "unlock" it. No logs or dmesg entries are produced when the lockup occurs. Its a Toshiba Satellite 1410-S173, currently running 2.6.7-rc2-mm2 \__ Jason Munro \__ jason@stdbev.com \__ http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/