Re: 2.6.22-rc[23]: blinking capslock led, stuck keys?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 6/4/07, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi!

> > Are you sure that it's this dummy blink driver that makes the kernel
> > stuck? I can't see how it could be causing any hogs - see commit f038f9.
> >
> > Anyway, added Andi to CC.
>
> Hmm, in theory it could be triggering bugs in some buggy keyboard
> controller. But then a
>
> while true ; do setleds +caps +numlock ; sleep 1 ; setleds -caps -numlock ;
> sleep 1 ; done
>
> should trigger it too.

...and it does.

pavel@amd:~$ while true; do setleds +num; setleds -num; done
Hm,m so thiis  iis  a teest of fkeyboarad behaviour  under lloadd.

pavel@amd:~$

...but I'm not quite sure it is a buggy keyboard. It happens _way_ too
often. Launch the line above and try to do some typing...

This used to work fine on my box last time I tried it (the switch
itself is offloaded to a keventd and shoud not get in the way) but
then they push all kind of ACPI/SMM crap together with KBC so who
knows... I should try it again when I get home.

--
Dmitry
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux