linux-kernel - Re: keyboard under X with 2.6.31

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Date:	Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:19:06 -0700
From:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	"Frédéric L. W. Meunier" 
	<fredlwm@...il.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: keyboard under X with 2.6.31

Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> 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.
mess around(maybe) with .xmodmap,
if before X mess with /usr/share/keymap/ *.gz(whatever your using)

Justin P. Mattock
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