Re: keyboard under X with 2.6.31

From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 22:56:45 EST


On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 05:19:25PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
My keyboard (ABNT2 PS/2) seems to be broken under X with 2.6.31.2. After
less than an hour, it starts acting crazy. The first time, all leds
turned off and I couldn't type anything. The second time, all leds also
turned off, but since it happened while I was pressing the Backspace key
to delete text, it continued deleting, like if the key was pressed.

In both cases, the mouse (USB) still works and I can exit X, where the
keyboard works. There's nothing in the logs.

No problem with 2.6.30.9. Is it supposed to be a kernel or X bug ?

It would be interestig to see if the same keyboard continues to work in
console... if it does then I'd blame X.

I can exit X with the mouse and do anything in the console after that.

I just reported it to the XOrg mailing-list.

Anyway, I wonder if DRI could mess with the keyboard. I suppose there were changes (and Radeon related) from 2.6.30 to 2.6.31. But I can test with it disabled.