linux-kernel - Re: x86-PAT tree merge causes keyboard problems

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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:01:29 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
CC:	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86-PAT tree merge causes keyboard problems

On 09/15/2009 10:26 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> 
> OK. I've attached most of those.
> The Xorg.log is also interesting:
> 
> (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
> (WW) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> 

Okay, that explains the keyboard failure.  What you're really seeing is
a systemic failure of the X server.  Suresh thought it might be mapping
the frame buffer incorrectly.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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