On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
> tir, 2002-10-08 kl. 10:17 skrev Vojtech Pavlik:
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:20:49AM +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
> > > man, 2002-10-07 kl. 22:01 skrev Vojtech Pavlik:
> > > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:55:10PM +0200, Stian Jordet wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > > I was starting to think you had forgot me :)
> > > >
> > > > In that case you should have reminded me of your problem. I tend to
> > > > forget when e-mails accumulate beyond a couple hundreds. ;)
> > >
> > > I kinda did, in a polite manner. Perhaps I was to polite :)
> > >
> > > > > The patch helped a lot. Now it doesn't crash at all. But when I use
> > > > > RIGHT-ALT+PAGE-UP, I get these errors a couple of times, then it
> > > > > suddenly works as it should.
> > > [snip}
> > > > I still don't like this behavior - the keyboard shouldn't reinitialize.
> > > > Can you repeat the same with I8042_DEBUG_IO?
> > > >
> > > > I definitely wasn't able to reproduce this here with very violent
> > > > bashing at my keyboard. And l/r alt-pageup works here just fine.
> > >
> > > Ok, this is very weird. I tried many times that first boot, and it
> > > wouldn't crash what so ever. Ok, it came up with some errors, but I
> > > couldn't get it to crash. After a recompile with debug enabled,
> > > everything went totally nuts. It didn't crash, but if I pressed S (or
> > > what ever key) I would get a screen full of that. Everything was crazy.
> > > But still no crash. I rebootet, still same behavior. Then I turned of
> > > debugging, and compiled again. And this time it started crashing again
> > > (!). I have no idea why, but now it's like it have always been. I have
> > > tried several times, used a fresh kerneltree, and patched again, no
> > > help. Freezes just like before. I will try some more tomorrow (I'm going
> > > to university in five hours), but I really can't understand what have
> > > happened.
> > >
> > > Thanks anyway for you work :)
> >
> > I really wonder what your keyboard sends for those keys. To avoid the
> > freeze (and rescanning of the keyboard), you should be able to
> > comment-out these lines in atkbd.c:
> >
> > case ATKBD_KEY_BAT:
> > serio_rescan(atkbd->serio);
> > return;
> >
> It didn't help at all. I just tried 2.5.41 instead of .40, and now I get
> an Oops. Earlier it just froze. Should I write it down?
Yes!
> I'm starting to feel a little embarassed since I'm the only one with
> this problem. It's not reallt a big deal, I can boot with i8042_direct,
> and it works fine.
Once 2.5 is more public, more people will be bitten by the problem you
have, so we need to fix it. Thanks a lot for your cooperation, and
please pardon my confusion about who sumbitted which problem, and if I
solved it already. :)
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