Re: 2.6.28-rc4-mmotm1110 shift-lock oddness

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Nov 18 2008 - 04:38:15 EST


On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> > First, we'd need a little bit more information about the hardware in
> > question, I guess.
> Dell Latitude D820 laptop, with a USB-connected Microsoft Natural
> keyboard. I don't think it's the USB subsystem going *completely*
> bonkers, as the USB-connected trackball mouse functions just fine when
> this happens...

Does this happen only when Microsoft natural keyboard is connected, or
does it happen also when you use the built-in keyboard?

What vendor/product ID does the USB keyboard have, please?

> > What laptop is that, please? Is the keyboard PS/2-connected or
> > USB-connected? Could you obtain evtest output from the buggy cases please?
> Hmm.. Got a pointer to a usable copy?

All decent distros ship this, usually as part of input-utils package.

> The best I could find googling for
> 'linux evtest' was:


> https://svn.openwrt.org/openwrt/packages/utils/event_test/src/evtest.c
> which wants a /dev/inputN - all I have is /dev/input/ and entries under that
> for the laptop's onboard mousepad and the trackball mouse, no keyboard entry.

Yes, /dev/input/eventN is used these days (when CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV is
turned on).

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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