keyboard - was: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test4

From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 05:52:09 EST


On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:07:33AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> I got some more events, and today I even was able to reproduc the
> "CTRL-is-stuck" problem.
>
> I was able to get the key unstuck by switching back and forth between
> dirrerent FB consoles and by pushing and releaseing CTRL in them...

Yesterday's data sufficed, and I suppose the patch I gave solves
this problem. Now that you send this, we can verify that each time
there is a problem we have had a double release just before, and
that release was an e0 xx combination.

> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x9c, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> i8042 history: e0 d0 1c 9c 2e ae 10 90 e0 50 e0 d0 e0 d0 1c 9c
>
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0xa0, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> i8042 history: 1c 9c 1c 9c e0 50 e0 d0 e0 50 e0 d0 e0 d0 20 a0
>
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0x9d, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> i8042 history: e0 50 e0 d0 e0 50 e0 d0 e0 d0 1d 2d ad 1f 9f 9d
>
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0xb9, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> i8042 history: e0 48 e0 c8 39 b9 e0 38 56 d6 e0 b8 e0 b8 39 b9
>
> atkbd.c: Unknown key (set 2, scancode 0xb9, on isa0060/serio0) pressed.
> i8042 history: a0 20 a0 9d e0 4d e0 cd e0 4d e0 cd e0 cd 39 b9

And indeed, we see e0 d0 e0 d0, e0 b8 e0 b8, e0 cd e0 cd.

This bug is understood.

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