Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys?

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Jun 04 2007 - 10:02:43 EST


On 6/4/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi!

> > Are you sure that it's this dummy blink driver that makes the kernel
> > stuck? I can't see how it could be causing any hogs - see commit f038f9.
> >
> > Anyway, added Andi to CC.
>
> Hmm, in theory it could be triggering bugs in some buggy keyboard
> controller. But then a
>
> while true ; do setleds +caps +numlock ; sleep 1 ; setleds -caps -numlock ;
> sleep 1 ; done
>
> should trigger it too.

...and it does.

pavel@amd:~$ while true; do setleds +num; setleds -num; done
Hm,m so thiis iis a teest of fkeyboarad behaviour under lloadd.

pavel@amd:~$

...but I'm not quite sure it is a buggy keyboard. It happens _way_ too
often. Launch the line above and try to do some typing...

This used to work fine on my box last time I tried it (the switch
itself is offloaded to a keventd and shoud not get in the way) but
then they push all kind of ACPI/SMM crap together with KBC so who
knows... I should try it again when I get home.

--
Dmitry
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