From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263033AbUDGLOG (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:14:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263039AbUDGLOG (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:14:06 -0400 Received: from grendel.digitalservice.pl ([217.67.200.140]:45474 "HELO mail.digitalservice.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263033AbUDGLOB (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:14:01 -0400 From: "R. J. Wysocki" Organization: SiSK To: Grzegorz Kulewski Subject: Re: 2.6.5: keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:21:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200404071222.21397.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404071321.01520.rjwysocki@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 07 of April 2004 12:33, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > FYI, I've just had a keyboard lockup on a Toshiba laptop (Satellite > > 1400-103) with the 2.6.5 kernel. > > > > It occured when I was typing some text in kmail. Everything worked just > > fine except for the keyboard that was locked (dead - even capslock did > > not work). Fortunately the (USB) mouse worked, so I could reboot the > > machine "gently" to get my keyboard back in order. > > > > I use RH9 with some modifications to support the 2.6.x kernels. Attached > > is the .config. > > Hi, > > Was anything in your logs about that? No sign of anything related to the keyboard. > I think that maybe you should disable PREEMPTION. Well, maybe, but I was using all of the previous 2.6.x _with_ the preepmtion enabled and nothing like this happened before. > Or use different distribution than RH9. They often modify gcc and other > programs, maybe even X - maybe try to compile your kernel on "vanilla" gcc > 3.3.3. I can give you a shell on computer with Gentoo and working gcc. Or > change distribution: Gentoo works ok for me and my friends! :-) Look, I've been using different variants of the 2.6.x kernels on this very machine/distro since early 2.6.0-test and I hadn't seen _anything_ like this before 2.6.5-rc2 (then I saw something like this first). I _really_ don't think it's a distribution-related issue. -- Rafael J. Wysocki, SiSK [tel. (+48) 605 053 693] ---------------------------- For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman