Re: Another keyboard woes with 2.6.0...

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:33:24PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> Andries is already gathering info for this one. This problem (missed
> key release) happens to me on all systems I have (Athlon + via, P3 + i440BX,
> P4 + 845...), most often when I do alt+right-arrow for walking through
> consoles (and for Andries: hitting key stops this, otherwise it 
> endlessly switches all VTs around, and while kernel thinks that key
> is down, keyboard actually does not generate any IRQs, so keyboard knows
> that all keys are released).

OK. It seems to me the two main hypotheses are: (i) problem with timers,
(ii) problem with keyboard.

In other words: could you (and/or anybody else who can reproduce this
at will) change the #undef DEBUG in i8042.c to #define DEBUG, recreate
the problem, and post or mail the resulting file with keystrokes?

[of course: cut away parts corresponding to login sequences etc.]

This will probably allow us to decide whether the missing key release
was never sent by the keyboard, or was lost by the kernel.

Andries
aeb@xxxxxx

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