Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:59:46 -0800 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: System hang from holding left shift key |
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Pavel Machek wrote: >> While absentmindedly holding down the left shift key as I was thinking about my >> next input, I froze the keyboard. After 3 seconds, the system sounded a high >> beep, and then a low beep after another 3 seconds. At that point, no key entry >> had any effect. From the beeps, one might conclude that the input buffer is >> full, but a CTRL/U did not clear it. Fortunately, a short press on the power >> button shut down the machine cleanly. >> >> I don't know if this is a regression. I found it in v2.6.28-rc2, but the oldest >> kernel that I could test (v2.6.24) already has the problem. >> >> When the beeps occur, a stack dump is as follows: > > What kind of machine is that...? I can't reproduce it here, do I need > some accessibility options enabled?
It is an HP dv2815nr notebook with an Turion X2 CPU running the x86_64 version of openSUSE 11.0.
I'm not running any special options that I know about. The only strange thing is that the shift keys autorepeat.
Larry
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