Re: keyboard under X with 2.6.31

[Justin P. Mattock]

Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:19:25PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > > My keyboard (ABNT2 PS/2) seems to be broken under X with 2.6.31.2. 
> > > After
> > > less than an hour, it starts acting crazy. The first time, all leds
> > > turned off and I couldn't type anything. The second time, all leds also
> > > turned off, but since it happened while I was pressing the Backspace 
> > > key
> > > to delete text, it continued deleting, like if the key was pressed.
> > >
> > > In both cases, the mouse (USB) still works and I can exit X, where the
> > > keyboard works. There's nothing in the logs.
> > >
> > > No problem with 2.6.30.9. Is it supposed to be a kernel or X bug ?
> >
> > It would be interestig to see if the same keyboard continues to work in
> > console... if it does then I'd blame X.
>
> I can exit X with the mouse and do anything in the console after that.
>
> I just reported it to the XOrg mailing-list.
>
> Anyway, I wonder if DRI could mess with the keyboard. I suppose there 
> were changes (and Radeon related) from 2.6.30 to 2.6.31. But I can 
> test with it disabled.
mess around(maybe) with .xmodmap,
if before X mess with /usr/share/keymap/ *.gz(whatever your using)

Justin P. Mattock
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