Re: Strange kbd problems with 2.3.17 on toshiba satellite 4030cdt

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:50:24 +0200


Hi!

> > Unless I press any key during boot, keyboard does not work when system
> > gets to login prompt. Suspend/resume corrects the problem.
>
> I just installed redhat 6.1 on my laptop and since a 2.2 kernel
> is on (not for very long), the problem returned.
>
> It seems that no interrupts are generated when keys are pressed,
> however a programmatic cure is to do "setleds +caps < /dev/tty1"

Nice, I'll probably use this workaround myself :-))))).

Something is wrong in pc_keyb.c. I do not know what it is, 8042 is
fragile beast. Don't blame gpm, bug is in kernel.
Pavel

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