Re: 2.6.5: keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> FYI, I've just had a keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite 1400-103) 
> with the 2.6.5 kernel.
> 
> It occured when I was typing some text in kmail.  Everything worked just fine 
> except for the keyboard that was locked (dead - even capslock did not work).  
> Fortunately the (USB) mouse worked, so I could reboot the machine "gently" to 
> get my keyboard back in order.
> 
> I use RH9 with some modifications to support the 2.6.x kernels.  Attached is 
> the .config.

Hi,

Was anything in your logs about that?

I think that maybe you should disable PREEMPTION.

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! :-)


regards

Grzegorz Kulewski

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