Re: XFree86 seems to be being wrongly accused of doing the wrongthing

[Peter Williams]

Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > With 2.6.4 I'm getting the following messages very early in the boot 
> > long before XFree86 is started:
> >
> > Mar 18 16:05:31 mudlark kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released 
> > (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
> > Mar 18 16:05:31 mudlark kernel: atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It 
> > shouldn't access hardware directly.
> >
> > They are repeated 6 times and are NOT the result of any keys being 
> > pressed or released.
>
>
> this has been fixed in XFree86 HEAD (4.4.99.1)
> see changelog entry nr. 6 - the changes can easily be backported to 4.3.0, and work as expected on my box.
> (no noise anymore)

I repeat.  These messages are appearing when XFree86 is NOT running so 
there is no way that it can be the cause of them.

Peter
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