Re: Odd keyboard related crashes.

Nicholas Berry
2001-10-09T10:48:55Z

>>> Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> 10/08/01 12:21PM >>>
>
> Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > > >>> Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> 10/05/01 05:01AM >>>
> > > >I'm running 2.4.10, and the ps/2 keyboard came out of it's socket.

>I should possibly have mentioned that APM is enabled on this machine,
> but no suspend/standby had been done, it's only for use in power-cuts
> when I want to minimise draw from the UPS batteries.
> The machine is an athlon desktop.

> I'll see if I can reproduce this with 2.4.11, 2.4.10 is utterly unusable
> for me. (totally insane swapping out causing things to get killed on
> significant reading.

I think you'll find it with any kernel. I still think this is normal behaviour. Unplugging the keyboard is fine, and should break nothing. Plugging it back it should not work. I guess I could try it on my machine here at work, but I'm not going to ;-).