Re: Strange keyboard behaviour w/laptop

From: Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 04:03:09 EST


On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:56:11AM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:

> My laptop (Toshiba 4015CDS) has always had this problem, but lately it
> seems to be much more frequent. (I wonder if there is an increase in
> sunspot activity because my machines have all been acting weird
> lately...) On bootup, immediately after the "Freeing unused kernel
> memory" message, the console starts to spit out "^[[21~" (minus quotes)
> over and over and over again. If I press any key on the keyboard, it
> stops, so it's certainly not fatal, just annoying. It's happened with
> all the 2.2 kernels I've tried and also 2.3.40 and 2.3.41.
>
> Apologies if this is a known situation, all the search engines I tried
> choked on trying to search for ^[[21~ ... :)

The default keymap binds
        string F10 = "\033[21~"
so probably your F10 function key is stuck.

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