Messages in this thread | | | From | "Steven A. DuChene" <> | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:35:22 -0500 | Subject | keyboard lockup on HP laptop w/2.2.X |
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On at least two different HP Omnibook 800 laptops, we (coworkers and myself) are experiencing some unusual keyboard lock outs when running the newer 2.2.X kernels. I seem to have narrowed it down to something with either the pcmcia utilities or the ps2 mouse device.
I am running 2.2.4-ac1 and my co-worker is running 2.2.2-ac7
Symptoms: with either the pcmcia modules (version 3.09) in place in /lib/modules/2.2.4/pcmcia or gpm starting at boot time, once the systems starts up gpm, the keyboard is locked out. If the suspend button is pressed to suspend the laptop and the reawakened with the same button, the keyboard input is restored. If either the pcmcia modules are moved out of the way or gpm is not started at boot time, the problem does not occur. Also this happens even if there is no pcmcia card in the slot.
If I disable gpm at boot time and leave the pcmcia modules in place, it works fine so as a test I did the following:
cat </dev/psaux
and again the keyboard was locked out. I had to hit suspend and resume (same button) to get it back.
Also booting with 2.0.36 and pcmcia 3.05 modules, on the same laptop and OS tree, the problem does not occur.
I will try updating to the 3.09 pcmcia stuff on 2.0.36 to see if that causes the problem. I have already tried updating to gpm-1.14 prior to discovering that doing the "cat </dev/psaux" caused the same problem without gpm in the picture. -- Steven A. DuChene Linux Fan! http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene
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