gpm breaks kernel's keyboard driver?

Sean M. Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:30:01 -0600 (CST)

Recently many people, including myself, have been having mysterious
"freezes" in the newer kernels. I do not know if this is the cause of
them, but it appears that gpm somehow is screwing up the keyboard driver
in the kernel (I am guessing...).

While reading my 'linux-kernel' mailbox, my machine stopped responding to
keystrokes at the console. Luckily, I had sysvinit already configured with
an agetty on the serial port. I grabbed the laptop and was able to login
via the serial port.

Once I killed the 'gpm' process and restarted it, my console keyboard
unlocked and returned to its normal functioing state. I cannot explain why
this would happen.

I use 'gpm -t ps2' on my PS/2 mouse. I am running kernel 2.1.92 with the
commented out printk's in fs/exec.c and the exported symbols.

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Sean M. Kelly
smkelly@zombie.org

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