Re: XFree86 seems to be being wrongly accused of doing the wrongthing

From: Emmanuel Fleury
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 04:28:47 EST


On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 08:08, Peter Williams wrote:
> Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> >>With 2.6.4 I'm getting the following messages very early in the boot
> >>long before XFree86 is started:
> >>
> >>Mar 18 16:05:31 mudlark kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released
> >>(translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> >>Mar 18 16:05:31 mudlark kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It
> >>shouldn't access hardware directly.
> >>
> >>They are repeated 6 times and are NOT the result of any keys being
> >>pressed or released.
> >
> >
> > this has been fixed in XFree86 HEAD (4.4.99.1)
> > see changelog entry nr. 6 - the changes can easily be backported to 4.3.0, and work as expected on my box.
> > (no noise anymore)
>
> I repeat. These messages are appearing when XFree86 is NOT running so
> there is no way that it can be the cause of them.

I have the exact same behaviour on my machine.

(my 2 cents)

Regards
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Emmanuel Fleury

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