Re: 2.6.5: keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Wed Apr 07 2004 - 06:32:53 EST


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:21:01PM +0200, R. J. Wysocki wrote:

> > Or use different distribution than RH9. They often modify gcc and other
> > programs, maybe even X - maybe try to compile your kernel on "vanilla" gcc
> > 3.3.3. I can give you a shell on computer with Gentoo and working gcc. Or
> > change distribution: Gentoo works ok for me and my friends! :-)
>
> Look, I've been using different variants of the 2.6.x kernels on this very
> machine/distro since early 2.6.0-test and I hadn't seen _anything_ like this
> before 2.6.5-rc2 (then I saw something like this first). I _really_ don't
> think it's a distribution-related issue.

Maybe you could enable debugging in i8042.c, and look at the log around
the unexpected reconnect of the keyboard.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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