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SubjectRe: Toshiba keyboard lockups
In case anyone's interested...

Applied these patches. Nothing while tail'ing /var/log/messages. Nothing
in the root console that I can see either.

Patched the source to 2.6.6. Still get the same lockups, totally random.

Any more ideas?

- Fernando

R. J. Wysocki wrote:

>On Wednesday 12 of May 2004 01:33, Fernando Paredes wrote:
>
>
>>There was a previous thread on this, last month.
>>
>>I updated to 2.6.6 and I still get these random lockups. Nothing in
>>dmesg or /var/log/messages. Too annoying as I have to reboot the machine
>>constantly. Does anyone know the status on this? Is t a toshiba hardware
>>bug (is that possible?) or a bug in serio.c or keybd.c?
>>
>>
>
>It's most probably Toshiba-related, because it does not happen on other
>hardware, it seems.
>
>I've got a simple patch from Grzegorz Kulewski to help trace the problem, but
>I haven't got a lockup since. The patch is as follows:
>
>--- /usr/src/linux-2.6.5/drivers/input/serio/serio.c.orig 2004-04-04
>05:36:15.000000000 +0200
>+++ /usr/src/linux-2.6.5/drivers/input/serio/serio.c 2004-04-09
>18:28:50.268521936 +0200
>@@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ static int serio_thread(void *nothing)
> static void serio_queue_event(struct serio *serio, int event_type)
> {
> struct serio_event *event;
>+
>+ if (event_type == SERIO_RESCAN || event_type == SERIO_RECONNECT) {
>+ printk(KERN_WARNING "serio: RESCAN || RECONNECT requested: %d!\n",
>event_type);
>+ dump_stack();
>+ }
>
> if ((event = kmalloc(sizeof(struct serio_event), GFP_ATOMIC))) {
> event->type = event_type;
>
>Please try to apply it and you should get something in the logs when a lockup
>occurs (ie. kernel warning + call trace).
>
>RJW
>
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