Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Feb 2000 06:10:34 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.44: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present? |
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 10:33:23PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > No, this is not normal, it means there is a problem communicating to > > the keyboard. Do the LEDs work on your keyboard at all? > > Yes. However, it does seem to be acting a little odd. When it booted up > the num lock light was on, but when I pressed capslock to check it, num > lock went out. > > It also seems to be inserting random characters every so often. Examples: > > "check 'it" when I typed "check it" > "beef" when I typed "be " > "cha7racters" when I typed "characters" > "Examples:B" (shift key then acted 'stuck' until next pressed) > > I'll just double-check that it's kernel-related; I normally run a 2.2 > kernel on this machine, so I'll try that for a while to check that it's > different.
Well, this looks very much like either a broken cable somewhere, or an unshielded cable and EMI.
-- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs
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