Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 1996 21:54:05 -0700 (MST) | From | "Jeffery S. Coy Jr." <> | Subject | keyboard/swap bug? |
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since about 1.3.72, i have been having problems with my keyboard. no oops's, it's just been acting up. i had been considering that my keyboard might be going bad, but i thought i would check here first.
with 1.3.72 & 73 i was getting lots of "keyboard error" messages, and occasionally keystrokes on the qwerty side would generate "unrecognized scancode: xxx", while the numpad side would be fine.
this stopped with 1.3.74, but the console occasionally stops recognizing the arrow keys, it would just display "OA", "OB", "OC", or "OD" rather than interpret the codes. running the ``reset'' program that comes with ncurses fixes the problem.
anyway, i just noticed that the arrow keys only seem to act up when i leave a console long enough for it to swap out to disk; IOW if i am logged into vt1, then switch to vt2 and stress the system (with a big compile or a long emacs session), then switch back to vt1 i usually have to type reset to get back the use of my arrow keys.
has anyone else noticed anything like this?
jeff BTW: linux has been running quite smoothly for me since about kernel v1.3.36. keep up the great job! --- Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors. drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough. forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a gnu generation.
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