Re: KBD failure in X?

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Friday 25 June 2004 05:50 pm, tom st denis wrote:
> Hi, I'm running Gentoo Linux on an x86 Laptop [Compaq Presario].  I've
> been running 2.4.26, 2.6.6-rc3 and 2.6.7 for a while [well 2.6.7 ever
> since it came out].
> 
> Now just recently I've been getting error [see attached dmesg log]. 
> XFree doesn't report any errors it just shuts down [yeah helpful!].
> 

If you referring to these messages:

atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly.

they are usually harmless and pretty much everyone gets them. Why would
your X server shut down - I have no idea as it does not report any errors
(at least none in the log you provided).
 
-- 
Dmitry
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