Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:46:24 -0500 | From | "Jason Munro" <> | Subject | Re: Toshiba keyboard lockups |
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On 2:15:12 pm 06/10/04 Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> wrote: > Hello! > > Fernando Paredes <Fernando.Paredes@sun.com> wrote: > > FP> Applied these patches. Nothing while tail'ing /var/log/messages. > Nothing FP> in the root console that I can see either. > FP> Patched the source to 2.6.6. Still get the same lockups, totally > random. FP> Any more ideas? > > Not sure if I have exact problem like you do, but at least I have > something similar. Once in a while keyboard suddenly stopps working, > touchpad still work though (I have Toshiba Satellite Pro (centrino > based) laptop here). I figured out that if I leave the keyboard for > some time (up to 2 minutes), it starts to work again, at least this > was the case with XFree 4.4, during those no-keyboard times, mouse > cursor was moving with small jumps (when keyboard works it moves > smoothly). I upgraded to FC2 (and hence to xorg X server) today, and > lockup happened once already, the "wait for some time" strategy did > not work, so I remembered initially I thought this was something bad > pressed on keyboard
I have had similar issues with a toshiba laptop keyboard with 2.6+ kernels for awhile. I have found that repeating the last key combination pressed will "unlock" it. No logs or dmesg entries are produced when the lockup occurs.
Its a Toshiba Satellite 1410-S173, currently running 2.6.7-rc2-mm2
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