linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc4-mmotm1110 shift-lock oddness

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Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:37:53 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc4-mmotm1110 shift-lock oddness

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu 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).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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