Re: Thinkpad T42, keyboard sometimes hosed when waking from sleep

[vcjones@NetworkingUnlimited.com (Vincent C Jones)]

In article <3b7Xs-6uL-23@gated-at.bofh.it> you write:
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>On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Juergen Botz wrote:
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>> I have a new IBM Thinkpad T42, FC3 with all updates, stock
>> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel + iwp2200 driver (0.13).  Everyone once
>> in a while when I wake from ACPI S3 sleep my keyboard is hosed...
>> the first key I press starts rapidly auto-repeating, which can't
>> be stopped, and pressing any key produces either no visible
>> action or some other character (not the one normally on that
>> key) which also auto repeats madly.
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>> It doesn't always happen, only maybe 10% of the time I come
>> out of S3.  I can't switch to different vt since ctrl-alt-fN
>> don't work, and since I am rarely on a text console I have
>> no idea whether it would happen there.  Putting the machine
>> back to sleep and re-waking doesn't fix it, so my only option
>> has been to reboot via the 'Actions' menu (mouse is ok through
>> all this.)
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>> Others have also reported this happening with APM, so it
>> doesn't seem to be an ACPI bug per se.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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>just another data point. I had seen the same thing happen for me once with 
>my T41p. Same config as above ie FC3, 2.6.9-1.681_FC3.
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>might be some RH-FC specific thing since I did not see it happen with 
>earlier incarnations of kernel.

Nothing to do with RH-FC-- Same problem started happening here
on a SuSE 9.1 with Xorg X and KDE 3.3+ using APM, not ACPI.
Linux 2.6.9-ac8 on a ThinkPad X31.

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