Messages in this thread |  | | From | Ian Stirling <> | Subject | Re: Odd keyboard related crashes. | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:24:11 +0100 (BST) |
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> >>> Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> 10/05/01 05:01AM >>> > >I'm running 2.4.10, and the ps/2 keyboard came out of it's socket. > > >On plugging back in, all worked fine, until 10 seconds later there was a > >crash. (the keyboard worked after being plugged in) > >No oops, just a reboot. <snip> > When the keyboard is powered up (or plugged in), it goes through a self = > test, and reports the status back to the PC. Normally, a start up dialogue = > takes place between the PC and the keyboard at this point. > That's fine when you boot your PC, but if you unplug then re-plug the = > keyboard, the PC will be sent data it's really not expecting, and the BIOS = > will be very confused.
I should have said. Both times this happened, the keyboard was working fine after being plugged in, correctly recognising 30 or so keypresses before the crash.
It happened ~10 seconds after the keyboard was plugged in, with the system and keyboard remaining functional, with no keyboard related messages sysloged (remote syslog, so I'm sure), which is why I suspect it may not be hardware.
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