Re: Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 08:27:16 EST


Hi!

> On my laptop, I get a lot of
>
> Keyboard on ... reports too many keys pressed.
>
> That may well be the case, I use my normal hands on a small
> laptop-keyboard.
> Why is that message printed? There nothing I can do about pressing
> multiple keys by accident, so I don't think it's useful.
>
> It does, however, frequently mess up the commandline, which leads to big
> frustration.
>
> Couldn't this be wrapped in #ifdef ATKBD_DEBUG or something? Is it
> really necessary to see this message?

Its error condition -- keyboard lost track of keys -- and
yes thats worth a printk. Try running klogd.
--
64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

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